On maandag, sep 15, 2003, at 20:53 Europe/Amsterdam, Susan Kline wrote: > 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. YO! > > 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? Indeed, 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 ... Hah! we ran out of US West coast almonds, ate them all and loved them! So get yourself up that hill Susan Kline! Hartelijke groet van AndréOorebeek
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