On the 20th day of December

[Richard Brekne]

Grin...  we do have the loose pins more or less under day sixteen.  And 
the original day one was  "A cracked plate and several broken keys".  
The plate and the block might be tough beyond day 1 because...welll 
there is only one to a piano.  Course we could have droped the numbers 
for each day and just done the song that way... but perhaps next year 
!!  The only other thing I can think og is to turn day 25 (which I'm 
figuring on being the last day) into the same kind of line as day 1.  
That might work...   "With a cracked plated and a pinblock split 
apart".... or something like that :)

Cheers
RicB


        There's got to be a way to cram in a delaminated pinblock,
        sseveral loose pins, and a cracked/broken plate...


     
     >Subject: On the 20th day of December
     >
     >T minus 5 and counting --
     >
     >On the 20th day of December a piano came to me
     >
     >   With twenty beckets a-buckling
     >   Nineteen shanks a-squiggling
     >   Eighteen keys a-knocking
     >   Seventeen barren backchecks
     >   Sixteen pins a-pommelled
     >   Fifteen butts a-bounding
     >   Fourteen wobbly whippens
     >   Thirteen coins a-clinking,
     >   Twelve tubby bass strings,
     >   Eleven  jacks a-jumping,
     >   Ten grungy grommets,
     >   Nine brittle bridles,
     >   Eight damaged dampers,
     >   Seven fractured flanges,
     >   Six errant elbows,
     >   Five broken strings !
     >   Four coats of paint,
     >   Three warped posts,
     >   Two pedals bent,
     >   From a Parson who wants it fixed free !
     >
     >Cheers
     >RicB