Piano Funnies for August 12, 2003

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Rob,

At 08:36 8/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>So just exactly who is it that tests these theories?
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>
> > There have been stories on this list telling of floating
> > modern Steinways...>



Well, it wasn't a Steinway, but I only am copying from the first message 
the archive search found...  there were others in a similar vein.


>Destroying old and floating pianos
>DaveAAAP@AOL.COM DaveAAAP@AOL.COM
>Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:05:36 EDT

>   This post answers two questions:
>   The first is that pianos, at least the grands I saw in the flood a few
>years ago in Macon, Georgia do float belly up...like a dead fish.  One was
>once a very nice Kawai around 7' with a polyester finish.  A local retailer
>picked it up free for just hauling it away.  They dried it out in the back
>room over a period of about a year or so and were planning on slapping some
>black paint over the peeling veneer and hoisting it up on the roof of their
>store.  They thought it would be a great conversation piece.

<Snipped extraneous stuff>
>Dave Streit
>Portland, OR




Conrad Hoffsommer, Decorah, IA

No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not 
sing. - W H Auden