[CAUT] Friday vent

[Robin Blankenship]

Dear Conrad,

A "choice of cold beers"?? Voila!!! I remember Joe Bisceglie talking about 
the Steinway factory tradition of shutting down on Friday afternoons and 
have a kegger on the shop floor(s)!!! So, there you are. If not "genuine" 
Steinway hammers, then at least a genuine Steinway tradition of getting 
"hammered"!!!

Enjoy, you have earned it!!!

Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Friday vent


> Frenns,
>
> just had a little talk with my department head/piano prof. arghhh...
> (pulled me out of a practice room regulation to pull up two unisons on his 
> studio D)
>
> while in his room we got onto how i was progressing on the weekly todo 
> list. Two items were to be voicing and regulation on  a B and an SF10, 
> with rebushing of the SF10.
>
> voicing was not just voicing - major filing needed on both - both need new 
> hammers -some of the keys [on both] are moving nicely with 42gm!! - down 
> to pure lacquer - we agreed that they needed new hammers
>
> Then the mystique hit.......
>
> I screwed up and mentioned that I wanted to put Wurzen hammers on them 
> both.
>
> You'd think I'd just blasphemed everything in the world and impuned his 
> parentage! It was OK for the SF10, but NON-STEINWAY HAMMERS IN THE B??????
> Argh...
>
> I said I'll get just the ones for the SF and see how we like them.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> There's a choice of cold beer at home, I'll be OK.
>
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer
>
> There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
> -Casey Stengel
>