Steinway D at W.K. Kellogg Auditorium

[Gordon Holley]

This past weekend I had the pleasure of returning to my Alma Matre 
High School, Battle Creek, Michigan, and playing the piano in a 19 
piece big band composed of other alumni, dating from 1968 back to 
1944. I graduated in the class of 1955.  The band was the featured 
act in a 3 hour show produced by the high school on both Friday and 
Saturday evenings, made up of high school students, chorus line and 
all.
Dick Day, a tuner/technician from Marshall,  Michigan, was the lead 
alto sax man and directed the band which played two of his 
arrangements "Satin Doll" and "Peter Gun"
The piano was a Steinway D, SN293528, 1938.  I had played this piano 
many times while in high school, however, this time when I first sat 
down to play it was obvious it had been rebuilt very recently, and by 
whom I don't know, but they did a magnificant job.  Absolutely 
beautiful and the stage crew even wore gloves while pushing the piano 
into position on the stage and would not let the case be touched with 
a bare hand.  It has an deep ebony finish and glistened in the 
lights.  The only possible negative point, that both Dick and I 
noticed, was that the action was a slight bit sluggish, but none the 
less this beauty did sing.  What a thrill  . . like this one are far 
and few between.  Just thought I'd share the experience.
Regards, Gordon Holley, Goshen, Indiana
Associate Member, Indiana Chapter 467 - Tuner/Technician