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[Kristinn Leifsson]

uh... what´s a hymnal?

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland



At 12:04 25.4.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>When I worked for a dealer we often got old uprights in on trade.  Dealers
>often do that to make a sell even though they have no intention on reselling
>it.  They typically got dumped into the huge ten foot high pile of busted up
>pianos behind the warehouse.  In one particular case the movers brought
one in
>which they claimed was the heaviest upright piano they had ever moved.  I
>pushed it across the shop floor and with the frozen up old steel wheels it
was
>just about impossible.  I opened the bottom of the piano and discovered the
>thing was chock full of church hymnals, and I mean completely full.  They
were
>extremely old and falling apart.  I saved one for my collection.  I would
guess
>they had been in there for the better part of 100 years!  I can't imagine why
>someone would want to fill a piano up with hymnals.
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>I am a mechanical music nut.  About a dozen years ago I rebuilt a CA-43
Tangley
>Calliope, (the most popular in it's day).  There had been some extensive work
>done on it in 1939, (If I remember the date correctly).  There was a
signature
>of the tech who did the work, Mr. "Levitt Brown".  Good ol' levitt!!
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>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV
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>PAT A RALPH wrote:
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>> Had a similar experience with a reed organ.  The owners had purchased it
for
>> $10.00 about 20 year ago not working and finally three years ago had it
>> rebuilt.  When my wife and I tore it down we found it had been rebuilt
>> exactly 100 years earlier when it was only about 10 years old.  Had the
>> rebuilders name on the inside.  Now it has two names inside.
>>
>> Ken Gerler
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