This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear List, I have a rather odd request. I've been tuning and fixing pianos for = about 20 years and I'm also a writer. I've decided to write a series of = mystery novels with a piano tuner as the heroine. I've started the first = one and have two more ideas in mind. I want the mystery to revolve around some aspect of music, pianos, = musical instruments. In the first novel a wooden carving is stolen for = no apparent reason from one of the tuner's client's house. It's a = beautiful statue of a monk playing a cello (some friends actually do = have a carving like this, and it's beautiful). My dilemma is this: What = wood can the statue be made of, which would be valuable enough to be = stolen by someone who wanted it in some aspect of musical instrument = building, and yet still could be made into a statue probably about 2 = feet high? I had in mind Brazilian Rosewood, does that make sense? I was going to have it be a harpsichord builder, but then I am told = rosewood was not used on historical harpsichords (thus would not be used = in replicas). Duh! I guess I should have known that. So, either I need = another wood, or I have to change the guy into a builder of historical = pianos, or maybe a violin maker. The instrument builder, by the way, is NOT the one who stole the statue. = Heaven forbid! He's just a kind of red herring.=20 If anybody can help me, I would be MOST grateful. I would even receive = plot ideas graciously! Please reply to me at my home address, = anita@proaxis.com Thanks so much! Anita Sullivan ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1d/7d/e1/2d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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