[CAUT] Re: Tacks in Hammers

Horace Greeley hgreeley@stanford.edu
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:38:18 -0700


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Hmmm....that's odd, I don't see an "Any" key on that piano!

(heheheheheh)

HG


At 07:09 AM 10/13/2004, you wrote:
>At 05:44 PM 10/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>It's art, man.  :-)
>>
>>Barbara Richmond
>
>Yeah, like the picture attached. :-)
>
>Avery
>
>>----- 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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