Good for business, spinets

[alan and carolyn barnard]

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Don said: "And the end result--students who drop out and hate piano--so their own children will not be encouraged to play (no play no pay)."

I will now remove tongue from cheek re original post.

Hey, I didn't sell them this thing. As a matter of fact it was the mom's mom's (an heirloom!) and lived in an unheated/air conditioned garage in New Orleans for 20 years. (yipes!)

I had the pleasure(?) of making it play again, including replacing most felts and all the wippen, hammer, and damper flanges which were mostly crumbles of brownish-white plastic dust on the bottom board (the elbows are wood, probably replacements). Hey it's what they wanted. So I HAVE made a chunkachange from this beast.

Takes an engineering degree just to get the fallboard/key cover assembly out, but, actually, this piano doesn't sound or play all that badly ... .

Okay, I'm lying.

Then there is this simple reality: For many, many, many people, it's a Krappe & Klunk or no piano at all. So frustration abounds ... a particular curse here in the "hills" where I see so many ugly uprights, sour spinets, pukey players, and goofy grands.

Alan R. Barnard, RSS*
Not Really Complaining in Salem, Missouri

*Rural Pieaner Specialist.

Our Motto: "Most of the keys move up and down a little and piano-like sounds come out: See, it's regulated and voiced."

Our Definition of Perfect Pitch: "A Winter & Sons spinet shoved out of an airplane at 30,000 feet landing on a pile of wounded banjos, bagpipes, and accordions."
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