This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Anita, I don't mean to tell you what to write, but the technician arrived to tune the piano and found that pedal lyre was not secured properly, so he used the statue (made of painted pine particle board) to hammer the lyre on better allowing him to finally secure it with the lyre block. Because the head and one arm of the statue broke off and it was so badly dented elsewhere, the tech decided that he would take it with him, replacing it with a nearby vase, hoping that no one would notice it missing. The owner assumed that her husband had hidden it and later ordered another out of the Spiegel catalog and continued to have the piano tuned every six months. The End... No charge. %~) Lance Lafargue, RPT Mandeville, LA New Orleans Chapter, PTG lancelafargue@bellsouth.net -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Anita Sullivan Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:04 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Tuner Mystery Novel 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. 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/21/9f/9e/ae/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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