On the 22nd day of December

[Barbara Richmond]

Timing is everything.

I just got my Christmas decorations up this week and in today's paper was an
article about taking them down...  :-o

br


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie at allthingspiano.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: On the 22nd day of December


> 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