Time Machine.

[Brian Trout]

Hi Ron,

Thanks for starting this thread.  I've often wondered about those names I
see written in various places on the piano, and the lives of those who
signed their names so well.  (Has anyone else noticed how neat some of those
signatures are?)

On an old Baldwin grand I rebuilt last year, there was a little spot, on one
of the beams  with wording something like "a ma bella femme  1915" or
something similar.  If only these old pianos could talk, the stories they'd
tell...

I've never signed my name in any fashion on a piano, regardless of what I've
done.  Somehow, I think that I've felt inadequate to put my name on them.
But I'm thinking that I might start placing a small mark on the pianos that
go through my shop, if for no other reason than for others to know just a
hint of where it's been, even if I'm long gone.  Perhaps a signature and a
date, and maybe even an idea of what I did, such as "Soundboard & Pinblock,
2000".

Brian Trout
Quarryville, PA
btrout@desupernet.net