This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Frank Hennessey, whom many of you know well, tells an interesting story about a customer of his who bought a Steinway grand (M, I think) for = $250 at a university sale. She called to ask him if he thought it would be a = good deal since the piano was "kind of beat up." He told her, of course, that he'd be happy to buy it if she didn't! =20 Ya never know. =20 Well, sometimes ya know and ya still make dumb choices. What's up with = THAT? =20 Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Joe Garrett Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:48 PM To: pianotech Subject: Weird Spinet Friday, I had the dubious honor of "tuning" a 1939 "Musette". Sheesh! It = was parallel stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey stick, (you could hit the = puck from anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound stings than I wanted to count! Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, to say the least. The = poor owner had bought it at a "University Sale", for $2,000! (Gawd, I hate = those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing was that the piano was = constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was nice, throughout. Played nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing closed up like a square grand. I hope this was the only one ever made, so that none of you have to try and = work on anything like it. BTW, it had a grand lyre, w/only two functioning = pedals, (the middle rod was attached to a spring on the underside of the keybed. Lovely! :-( I usually relish working on the weird, but not this one! Regards, Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/2d/5e/66/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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