On the 22nd day of December

[Annie Grieshop]

You do know, of course, that the "12 days of Christmas" are the ones from 25
December to 6 January (Christmas to Epiphany), right?

T-3?  Heck, you haven't even started yet! <G>

Annie Grieshop

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Brekne [mailto:ricb at pianostemmer.no]
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:05 AM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: On the 22nd day of December
>
>
> T minus 3 and counting --
>
> On the 22nd day of December a piano came to me
>
>    With twenty two hammers a-hobbling
>    Twenty one crusty keypins
>    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