In a message dated 95-05-30 17:52:22 EDT, Gordon Large wrote: >The upright, he said, I could take >To my island cabin on the lake. >But it fell out of the boat. >(Pianos don't float) >But oh, what great anchors they make! Oh, but they do float, upside-down, as witnessed after Hurricane Camelle in Biloxi, which reminds me of an old-piano-tuner's story: It seems that a patron of the arts in Biloxi purchased a new grand piano for .......... his yacht. Compounding the instability of a new piano, the salt water environment made the task of keeping the piano in tune an exercise in futility! After much frustration, the new piano owner came upon a plan to solve the problem once and for all! It seemed to him that the tuner must be totally incompetent since the piano went out of tune almost as soon as he left the yacht. He called the tuner out one last time. After the tuning was done, he paid the tuner, ushered him off the boat, pulled out his welding torche and meticulously spot welded each and every tuning pin to the plate! Frank Emerson Director of R & D, Baldwin Piano
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