John Lennon's Steinway

[Jim Kinnear]

Actually that lucky person who'll be playing it is george Michael . . . . .
( guys with two first names sound a bit 'made up' . . ? )



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Jim Kinnear
www.pianoguy.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Heaton" <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: John Lennon's Steinway


> It's possibly  Sir Paul McCartney buying it  for the   museum in
> Liverpool. That was the educated guess on the Local news tonight.
>
> Barrie,
>
>
> In article <39EDC77B.6A044B2E@nevada.edu>, Robert goodale
> <rrg@nevada.edu> writes
> >I wonder who the lucky one will be who gets to tune it ;-)
> >
> >Anyone on this list know anything directly about this piano?  Has anyone
here
> >worked on it?  Someone's gotta know someone who is familiar with it.
> >
> >Rob Goodale, RPT
> >Las Vegas, NV
> >
> >
> >John Musselwhite wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Folks.
> >>
> >> I was just watching the news and saw that John Lennon's Steinway "Z"
> >> vertical he bought in 1970 for about $1,000 pounds and on which he
> >composed
> >> "Imagine" sold at auction today to an anonymous buyer for 1.5 million
> >> pounds ($2,080,000 USD or a cool $3 million CDN)!
> >>
> >> See
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001017/re/britain_lennon_dc_8.html
> >>
> >> Let's hope it remains on display in a museum rather than sitting in
Michael
> >> Jackson's (for example only) living room!
> >>
> >> Does anyone know anything about this model? I've seen a "V" (lovely
> >> piano!), but never a "Z". Is it properly called a "Zed" or a "Zee"?
> >>
> >> It looked like a continental-style 1098... but at two million bucks
perish
> >> the thought!
> >>
> >>                                 John
> >> John Musselwhite, RPT    -     Calgary, Alberta Canada
> >> http://www.musselwhite.com  http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary
> >> email: john@musselwhite.com    http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom
> >
> >
>
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