electric shavers and hammer voicing

[David Ilvedson]

Carol,

We are not telling you anything until you tell us what the shaver is for?  

David I.

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On 2/19/01 at 6:41 PM Carol Beigel wrote:

>I need to know a "guy thing" and quickly!  Just as many of you have never
>noticed curling irons, I have never even glanced at electric shavers.  Is
>there a shaver in the U.S. that is very flat, like less than one half inch
>deep that gives a very fine shave?  We are not talking about a Norelco
>thingee that has three circles on it, but a fine screen about 2 inches
>wide.  I seem to remember a Remington model, as I think my son may have
>one, but it is big.  The one I see here in Iceland is made by Braun and is
>220V and is less than the thickness of a pack of cigarettes.
>
>Kristinn´s father is showing me some very interesting hammer voicing
>techniques and this particular one is really great!  I will check this
>email each day as if this is not available in the US, I will buy one
>anyway and just get a power converter to charge it.  It is really nice to
>have someone demonstrate to me how to get the "mellow, European sound" out
>of a piano, and how and where to voice hammers to get different sounds on
>the soft and hard blows.
>
>As you can see, I am still alive and survived the flight back to Reykjavik
>from Akureyri.  You know, fjords may look great in pictures, but flying in
>and out of them in a wind that blows through the zipper in your jacket is
>a real experience!  I have some great pictures that I took hanging onto
>the side mirror of a jeep so I wouldn´t blow off the edge of a cliff! 
>Geat views, though!  Also, the food is as good as Paris and they have
>Pepsi here!
>
>Let me know if this shaver is available in the U.S.  Thanks.
>
>Carol Beigel