At 6:57 PM +0000 12/6/01, Barrie Heaton wrote: > >Richard Gardner claims he's the only man in England with a stock of >>these. > >Never come across this man should I know him ? Contemporary of Bob Glazebrook way back at Steinways. Went on his own in Exeter years ago. About the only man in England I ever phone for advice. Tells a good yarn and does a good piano -- when he gets round to it. >Fletchers have asked me to send them a few so they can see if they >can make them, but what amazed me is that they did not know what >they was at first, as no one had asked for them before, well in the >last 15 years ! I blame Mrs. Thatcher! They must have done a roaring trade in them in the 60s. JD
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