Time Machine.

[PAT A RALPH]

Had a similar experience with a reed organ.  The owners had purchased it for
$10.00 about 20 year ago not working and finally three years ago had it
rebuilt.  When my wife and I tore it down we found it had been rebuilt
exactly 100 years earlier when it was only about 10 years old.  Had the
rebuilders name on the inside.  Now it has two names inside.

Ken Gerler

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Time Machine.


> "I always enjoyed these little glimpses into the past."
>
>
>  Ron N
>
>  That is why you are in this business.  It is almost a spiritual
experience
> to pick up a key with a man's signature and date from the 1880s on it.  A
> while back I tightened all the flange screws on an old upright and found a
> date a little over 100 years prior when some else had done the very same
> thing.  How many hi-tec people ever get to touch history on a daily bases
as
> we fortunate people do?  My favorite part of a rebuilding job is the
tearing
> down.  That is when I find all those goodies which make for such
interesting
> conversation and when I find those signatures which no one has seen in 100
> years.
>
> Andrew Remillard