[pianotech] Big Foot in Concert

[Duaine Hechler]

How can a - Monster Truck - "Big Foot" - be in a concert ????

http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html

On 05/21/2012 02:39 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
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> It had pictures but it didn't get thru so maybe later
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> *Dale Erwin... RPT
> **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos
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>   I admit this a bit of a sentimental journey but this is part and parcel of our work and a part we may need more of.
> Many of you may remember the 1928 D that I took to the rebuilders Gallery in Rochester  N.Y. 2006 & Los 
> Angeles,Sacramento,Anaheim later. I know many people enjoyed that instrument andfor me it was a very happy outcome 
> tonally.
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>  My Personal Favorite D to Date. Its shop name was "Big Foot', AS it had such a big footprint in the shop for soooo 
> long. For many reasons it was rebuilding process scattered over about 5 years.
>    After parading it here and there to conventions it finally sold about 4 years ago to the Arkely center for the 
> arts, a 1920 Theater restored by a local family in Eureka on the remote North Calif. coast. It was gratifying to place 
> this beast in a place that was acoustically the pianos equal, a really great space. The center is the hub of culture 
> in the region and the piano used by the symphony and others. My friend and consummate technician Greg Granoff looks 
> after the beast now with great care. He is also the head tech for Humboldt state.
>   I had not seen/heard the piano since I delivered it 4 yrs ago. I've been waiting for the right concerto at the right 
> moment to make the trek up there to see and hear this piano in concert in this space.
>  So I was  in Eureka Ca. over the weekend, about 300 mile drive from Modesto, to hear...Bigfoot....
>  A young local talent Ryan McAvoy McCullough came back to the area to perform the Rachmaninoff 3 thd piano concerto. 
> Fantastic acoustics, amazing young pianist,...He was near flawless. The performance  gripped me on so many emotional 
> levels. It was similar to seeing one of your children after a long absence. Someones voice you know and love so well 
> speaking to you again. The sound in the building, the way he bonded to the keyboard & the nuance of tone coming from 
> the Instrument was truly a culminating moment in my ears and life. The Beast has become the Black beauty!
>    What a journey that piano has been in my life.   The piano/pianist sounded absolutely stellar. Best 
> performance*__*_I,ve ever _heard on my work.
> I'm on cloud nine this am. Beautiful day in that coastal town. Trix, Jacob and Sara all here.... Life is good.
> Dale
> Aka...tone warrior :)
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> *Dale Erwin... RPT
> **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos
> www.Erwinspiano.com <http://www.Erwinspiano.com>
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