Tuner Mystery Novel

[Farrell]

Oh I see Kristinn. You must also be thinking about writing a book. Eigh?
;-)

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristinn Leifsson" <istuner@islandia.is>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Tuner Mystery Novel


Hi Anita

Well, perhaps you could have a plot twist and have the statue filled with
cocaine!

That would be valuable, wouldn´t it?

Or it could be a wooly mammoth´s tusk that somebody wanted to make keytops
out of...

Kristinn Leifsson

P.S. I´ve also thought about various was to hide drugs or contraband in
pianos, under the keys etc.


At 06:03 22.2.2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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,
><mailto:anita@proaxis.com>anita@proaxis.com      Thanks so much!
>
>Anita Sullivan
>
>