A ''Babcock'' for PTG.

[Matt Wynne]

At 03:10 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
>   Hello to All,
>
>     To bring everybody up to date.
>A few months ago I was able to get  a coustomer
>of mine to donate a " Heintzman Transposer" upr.
>to the Foundation for our Museum.  This piano
>will transpose one full octave.  Leon Speir and I
>took this piano to K.C.
>

Is that the piano that Irving Berlin had commissioned?  As the legend goes, 
he could only play in the key of F# and had a transposing upright 
commissioned so he could accompany singers, who required accompaniment in 
keys other than F#.

Matt