Ca pin block repair-broken tuning pin

[Susan Kline]

At 07:22 PM 9/15/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>I always thought that Americans had more money to spend??? (the land of 
>milk and honey?)

Vriendelijke Groeten, natch ...

The rich ones do, but then the rich ones often buy all sorts of other fancy 
stuff, and have a beat-up old spinet which hardly clunks along -- go 
figure. Or they buy a fancy new grand, and then it just SITS there -- which 
I don't mind, except sometimes they put it in a fancy bay window, and the 
sun roasts it to death. Being rich certainly doesn't impart musical taste, 
in my experience. They either have it already before they become rich, or 
they don't ever have it.

And then, there is everybody else. They often have little children and 
raising the money for lessons is almost more than they can manage -- and 
they're the ones with the tired old pianos brought from the Great American 
Heartland, with the bad pinblocks. And there are all the ones in the 
middle, who could really get something better -- and I tell them so. But if 
a few minutes with my little CA bottle can get their old hulks working 
again -- why not?

So, André, if I get over to your place, I should be in good enough shape to 
run up to the fourth floor, for your fabulous cooking? And of course I'll 
need to carry a few almonds, filberts, etc. with me. Maybe if I walk up the 
nearby hill a few steps further every day ...

S