The method of manufacturing a firmware-updated programmable hearing device comprising at least one processor and a memory unit in which hearing device firmware is stored, comprises the step of executing an update application in said processor installing an updated version of at least a portion of the hearing device firmware in said memory unit. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar L-206, to the plants of rice L-206 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar L-206 with itself or another rice variety. A user places the guitar on the generally horizontally oriented support member depressing it downward which causes movement of the cradling arms from an outward open position to an inward closed position latterly supporting the body of the stringed instrument. The semiconductor integrated circuit can be switched for a system LSI after wafer processing, so this enables a plurality of system LSIs to be manufactured using the same exposure masks, thus improving productivity.