Got through, finally

SC says that he'll sign and return the agreement tonight, and that he's been working with Bosendorfer in Vienna, and not, as he originally told me, the distributor in the USA. (Maybe I shouldn't have dropped Basilios's name the way I did -- he's a clever guy. Or maybe I am just paranoid...)

He also said that the Bosendorferers were checking to see if they've got a Strauss-case 225 in the USA on a "Road Show". If they DO have one here, I should get the piano pretty quickly, he says.