Fwd: [CAUT] Storytone piano

[Christopher Purdy]

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> Date: May 8, 2005 8:59:17 PM EDT
> To: purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Storytone piano
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> From: "Christopher D. Purdy" <purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
> Date: May 8, 2005 9:57:55 PM EDT
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Storytone piano
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> Lisa,
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> Thanks for your referrals, this is great.=A0 Just what I need.=A0 Oh, =
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> thanks for correcting me on the year of the Chicago fair.=A0 I was =
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> repeating what I was told.=A0 (I wasn't there, heck, my parents =
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> born yet)=A0 My friend that told me that went on and on about all the =20=

> art deco architecture in Chicago at the time.
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> I will wait until tomorrow to browse the web pages you sent.=A0 I have =
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> ether net access at the office, that makes things go a lot faster than =
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> the antique modem I have to use at home.
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> And yeah, I had found a bunch of articles about "Fatha" Hines and the =20=

> Storytone.=A0 He toured and did some recording.=A0 What I have not =
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> so far is a description of the piano he toured with.=A0 I mean, did he =
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> really tour with this spinet or did he had a grand fit with the pick =20=

> ups and amplifiers?=A0 One thing I read said that the piano he toured =20=

> with weighed "one and a half tons".=A0 It's hard to imagine a spinet =20=

> piano that weighed three times as much as a Steinway D...
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> Thanks again,
> Chris
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>
>> 39 World's Fair was New York.=A0 33 World's fair was Chicago.=A0Your =20=

>> musings sent me on a late night search for 39 World's =20
>> Fair+piano.=A0This is the best of what I found.Vintage pianos ads.=A0 =
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>> This site will keep me busy for days and =20
>> days.http://shop.vendio.com/vintageads4u/page/0/25/?=20
>> search_cmd=3D1&categ=3D7833=A0=A0Another search of RCA+piano+world's =
fair =20
>> gave me these:=A0History of David Sarnoff, who=A0developed commercial =
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>> radio=A0was president of RCA.=A0 Do you think Bill Gates took a =
lesson =20
>> from his =20
>> life?http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/=20
>> sarnoff.html=A0Dude ... you forgot that Cristofori guy.=A0 Otherwise =20=

>> interesting timeline of =20
>> electronica.http://www.jam2dis.com/j2delectronicahist4.htm=A0=A0It =
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>> like Earl Hines toured with a piano like yours.=A0 See =20
>> 1940:http://www.fenderrhodes.com/history/timeline.php=A0There is =20
>> obviously=A0a market for 39 World's Fair collectibles.=A0 A =
whole=A0other =20
>> world ('s fair) is out there for you to find.=A0Lisa Weller=A0P. S, =
If my =20
>> mother lets me, I'll take a look at the collection of memorabilia my =20=

>> father collected when he was a kid and spent the summer going to the =20=

>> fair.
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> --=20
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Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.
School of Music, Ohio University
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