Linen

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:23:36 +0100


Thats quite the story there Barbara. I just love how these posts wander 
from subject to subject :).. ROLF,, I can see some poor fellow or gal 
looking through the net.... doing a google search on the word Linen... 
and getting this post to pop up.

Anyways.. nice story.

Cheers
RicB


Barbara Richmond wrote:

> Hey Mr. Bill,
> 
> Oops.....I was having a senior moment.  It was 15 1/2 years ago (1988) that
> I sent the piano over to Champaign to have the pinblock, restringing, etc
> done.  The rebuilding of the action was going to be used for a class at the
> PTG Central Illinois Seminar.  The guy who was doing the action lived
> someplace else (where the action stack had been shipped), was a little slow
> to get what he wanted done, so instead of shipping the action stack back to
> Illinois, he checked it as baggage on the plane............you guessed
> it.............it got lost.
> 
> So much for the seminar class--and where was my action stack?????   It was a
> week or two later, when a call came in from customs.  Apparently the stack
> had shown up at some US army base in Germany.  (If only action stacks could
> talk!)   I eventually got it and thought that I would finish it, but never
> did.  It was 11 1/2 years ago that I called my trusted rebuilder again and
> said, "Finish it."
> 
> Actually, I think they may be Renners.  I'm working today and won't have
> time to look or call, but maybe tomorrow.
> 
> Strange, but true---sort of like me.  ;-)
> 
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> 
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