Time Machine.

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Church song book,
Joe Goss
----- Original Message -----
From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Time Machine.


> 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.
> >
> >
> >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!!
> >
> >Rob Goodale, RPT
> >Las Vegas, NV
> >
> >
> >PAT A RALPH wrote:
> >
> >> 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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