---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List Today I tuned an old Kimball 7 foot grand. I didn't check the serial number but it dates back to the 1920s or earlier. The story is that the piano was originally built for a touring artist who travelled with the piano. The artist's name, or so the story goes, was Bachmann, or something like that. I crawled under the piano and found two signatures in pencil on the soundboard at the extreme treble. One of the highly stylized signatures was accompanied by the date, 1925. At first it was difficult to make out any letters at all. Examining it more closely, I started to think that it actually might say "George Gershwin"! The George was pretty clear, but the Gershwin was more like "Gersh-------". (a wavy line) And, the two stlylized G's, if that's what they were, were not the same as each other. One could be an "S" or something else... I got home tonight and dug out my Complete Works of George Gershwin, and right on the cover was his signature, and lo and behold, the two G's were not the same. The "shwin" part of his surname was clear, though. Still, it's possible he hurried the signature along and it came out a bit sloppy on this piano...right? >From my memory the two signatures seem pretty close. Still, I plan to stop by with my copy of the Complete Works and compare the signatures before I lay legitimate claim to this "BRUSH WITH GREATNESS". Go ahead, shoot me down, but it still made for an interesting day for me, Tom Sivak ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1f/1b/49/9f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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