[CAUT] Re: Tacks in Hammers

[Barbara Richmond]

It's art, man.  :-)

Barbara Richmond

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Ellis" <claviers@nxs.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Re: Tacks in Hammers


>I have been reading this ongoing exchange.  This is disgusting, and I do
> NOT mean the technicians who have to put up with it.  I mean the people
> doing it and asking for it.  Thumbtacks in the hammers - screws wedged
> between the strings - and things like that.
>
> If they want stuff like that, why don't they do something like my son and 
> I
> did some 25 years ago.  We recorded one of his "pieces of music" (#?!*@&!)
> played on an old upright with a split back and busted plate.  It was a 
> real
> hoot!  The piano was ready for the junk pile anyway.
>
> But to take a fine piano and bugger it up by poking it full of junk is too
> much.  Don't our universities have better things to do?
>
> Jim Ellis
>
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