---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have often thought of the same thing...once I tuned prior to the arrival= of Prez Clinton and thought about what if I found a bomb hidden in the= piano and I was the only one who knew how to get into it to disarm it. I= would save the day! Well, for the liberals anyway...;-] Consider the statue to be made of some exotic type of ebony! By the way,= you might want to consider a husband/wife team of piano technicians who= solve the mysteries...one is in the shop and the other is always out and= about and running into trouble. The shop 1/2 could be a genius type who= would listen to the stories and offer help in interesting ways...the other= half would be the one to go out and do the footwork. Sounds like fun! David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/22/01 at 6:03 AM Anita Sullivan 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,= 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/60/1d/1a/36/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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