Doug Thanks for your efforts. Wouldn't this make a nice display at the national in Reno?!! Paul Chick ----- Original Message ----- From: <Douglasmahard@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:01 PM Subject: Re: Jesse French Piano Manu. Sales Tool - a story. > Dear Paul, Newton, Clyde, and Susan: > > I will do my best to get these slides scanned so I can post them on the list. > > I'm going to ask the customer if he would be willing to donate the item to > the PTG Museum. If that doesn't work I'll offer to buy it from him and > donate it myself. > > Give me a week or two to find somebody to scan them in for me. > > Everybody I show this thing to flips out and they're just neighbors or people > stopping by. This thing is going to be a hoot at the next chapter meeting. > The definition is incredible on the slides. If somebody knew any body that > worked at Jesse French at the time the pictures were taken they would be able > to identify them - even the people standing in back of the room; and it's a > long room. > > The veneer press photo looks like something out of Young Frankstein. There > is this huge box behind the press with gauges and dials. Some photos show a > beautiful summer day out the windows and another the trees are covered in > snow. > > Later, > > Doug Mahard >
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