This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Lester did make grand pianos -- or should I say horizontal spinets. I = don't know how large they made, but I have a customer with one that's = about 5'8".=20 =20 dave =20 __________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ________________________________ From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org on behalf of Tvak@aol.com Sent: Fri 12/3/2004 5:34 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: endorsed by the Philadelphia Orchestra???? List I've tuned many a Lester in my short career. Too many, I'd have to say. = Today, there I was, sitting once again at a Lester, banging on those = waterfall keys, attempting to make it sound like a piano when I looked = up, and on the underside of the lid was a decal which stated, "Endorsed = by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra". Whaaa? This is like the US Olympic Track and Field Team endorsing PAYLESS = SHOES. =20 Or the Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarding Yassar Arafat the Nobel = Peace Prize. (Oh...wait...that actually happened...heh, heh) Anyway, how could this be true? Was anyone around back then (this piano = dated to the 40s, I'd say) who could tell me how this could happen? =20 I do have a theory, though. Perhaps it's because you can refer to = either the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra OR Lester pianos by the = initials: PSO! Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6144 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c8/20/2c/04/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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