shoot the piano

[Avery Todd]

Jim,

    I'm SO glad to hear you say this. I've recently discovered we have a 7'
Horugel in our inventory. It had been in a faculty member's home ever
since I came here and recently had to be returned because he was
denied tenure (no wise cracks here as to the relationship). :-)
    I haven't had a chance to do anything except tune it yet but except
for a lot of sluggishness in the action, I didn't notice any other serious
problems.
    Think I might get lucky? :-)

Avery

At 11:37 AM 11/04/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Mark:
>
>I had an experience recently where I was called to tune a 7' Horugel.
>Actually, the piano was pretty good. They had learned by this time
>to shape the treble V-bar surface. The piano had good duration (even with
>a laminated soundboard). I take back all my meanspirited thought about
>this piano.
>
>Jim Coleman, Sr.
>
>On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 bases-loaded@juno.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:07:50 -0600 "Brian Henselman"
> > <musicmasters@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> >  Then we could each take a shot at identifying the piano,
> > > or better yet, depending on the brand, just shoot the piano.
> >
> > I had the misfortune of meeting face-to-face in a dark alley with my
> > first Horugel today.  From now on I will take a gun and a shovel when
> > asked to service the HorrendousHorugel so I can take it out back and
> > shoot it and dig a hole big enough to put it in.  Oh, and maybe a clean
> > cotton cloth to wipe off my fingerprints from the scene of the crime.  Or
> > perhaps it would be considered an heroic gesture?  It seemed like an
> > alien plot against mankind....
> >
> > Mark Potter
> > bases-loaded@juno.com
> >
> >