Local Boy Makes Paper

[Richard Brekne]

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BILL !! you've lost weight !! :)

Fun to get in the news... congrats
RicB

Bill Ballard wrote:

> Remember the Krakauer grand which I told of finishing up for last
> Easter Sunday, at the Congo Church just south of me. (Among other
> things, I showed up for the pre-service pancake breakfast, got roped
> into a choir rehearsal, as stayed fro the service.) I included a
> long-shot picture of the piano in the sanctuary. ("Easter Sunday"
> 4/20/03) The Church members put off plans for an inaugural concert
> until  this Fall (actually this Saturday upcoming). And there was a
> nice story in the local paper on Tues. (first page of which posted
> here as a graphic, the remaining text at the url below). I still can't
> believe how well this piano lasted, sitting as it did for decades,
> derelict in a dusty old grange hall. The beech action parts were
> fracturing, strings were popping, applique carving was falling off and
> walking away. But under neath this near-century of neglect was a very
> string board and block (I went from 2/0x2.375 to 3/0x2.5 and it feels
> brand-new.) Since then I've found an identical Krakauer 4 years older
> in a Unitarian Church the next town over, with the same strong signs
> of what it has to offer, speaking through the 100 year-old materials.
> So there's my fifteen minutes of fame. Bill Ballard RPTNH Chapter,
> P.T.G.
>
> "All God's Children got Rhythm"
>     ...........Ivy Anderson in "A Day at the
> Races"+++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1743159,00.html
> [Image]

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html


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