On the 21st day of December

[David Ilvedson]

I might change the twenty one to "Twenty wretched beckets"

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 12/20/2007 1:03:33 PM
Subject: On the 21st day of December


>T minus 4 and counting --

>On the 21st day of December a piano came to me

>   With one and twenty cracks
>   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