Deep Freeze Piano!!!!!

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:22 PM +0200 6/1/03, Richard Brekne wrote:
>In anycase, his reputation amoung some of the piano people I know in Seattle
>doesnt seem to be so savoury. I wont say anymore except to apologize for
>seemingly jumping too hastily in and applauding his  << creativity >>.

One thing comes through: attention deficit disorder.

Quoting the article:

>"I think it's the first time anyone has ever tried to do this to a
>piano," said Chernobieff, a 42-year-old piano
>tuner-restorer-builder-mover-composer-artist.
>
>Chernobieff is the curious kind of renaissance dreamer who'd be as
>comfortable in the 17th century as in the 21st. He's a self-taught
>classicist, with a passion for Bach and Scarlatti. His workingman
>hands, with stubby nails rimmed in black, dance like butterflies
>across the ivories of his works-in-progress.
>
>The interior of the ChrisPiano shop on Grand Avenue -- where a fine
>layer of wood dust coats dismembered instruments -- illustrates the
>free play of the craftsman's ideas.
>
>In one corner is an ornate piano leg with horse heads and stars, one
>of three Chernobieff is designing and carving. On workbenches are the
>piano tools he's endlessly inventing -- devices to measure the curves
>of a soundboard, or the degree of a hammer's drop.
>
>His penciled compositions are scattered across piano tops and his
>crowded bookshelves contain tomes on master musicians and scientists:
>da Vinci, Steinway, Stradivarius.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
     ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester"
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