acoustic? ACOUSTIC???

[Horace Greeley]

Gee, Jim, do you have any _real_ feelings about this?...

Actually, most of these Captains of Industry were pretty 
darn despicable people, which is not to say human...

Hmm.  I must go away somewhere and figure this out.

Best.

Horace


At 05:05 PM 2/13/1998 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 2/13/98 4:31:35 PM, lessmith@buffnet.net wrote:
>
><<"Okay, Jim. It's a deal, but I need a clarification. Can I still use the
>terms "Acoustigrande" and "Capacoustic grand" when referring to Chickering
>Brother's pianos? Those are the names cast into their plates. Just looking
>for a loophole. :-)
>Les ">>
>
>Well gee Les if you would rather follow the lead of an old ocean going pirate
>who got seasick and started the raping of the worlds rainforests for exotic
>woods to burn in his fireplace and build pianos with, someone who started a
>shipping and manufacturing dynasty whose effects linger with us today,
someone
>who sent his sons and partners to sea to quince his almost inexhaustible
>desire for more and more exotic wood and eventually was the cause of his
>partners death at sea, someone who among all his exprimentation and weird
>notions managed to turn out some very memorable instruments as well as some
>abortions of the art, someone who is causing us to say of todays
"Chickerings"
>'this is not your grandfathers Chickering', if that is the Chickerings you
are
>referring to, than yeah OK.  Who am I to argue? I've never made a piano.  :-)
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>
>
>
Horace Greeley

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