Dale Erwin... RPT Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos www.Erwinspiano.com 209-577-8397 -----Original Message----- From: Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 3:54 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Big Foot in Concert The Front side of the Arkley theater Eureka. Dale Erwin... RPT Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos www.Erwinspiano.com 209-577-8397 -----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 2:08 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Big Foot in Concert How can a - Monster Truck - "Big Foot" - be in a concert ???? http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html On 05/21/2012 02:39 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > > It had pictures but it didn't get thru so maybe later > > *Dale Erwin... RPT > **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos > www.Erwinspiano.com > 209-577-8397 > * > > > > > I admit this a bit of a sentimental journey but this is part and parcel of our work and a part we may need more of. > Many of you may remember the 1928 D that I took to the rebuilders Gallery in Rochester N.Y. 2006 & Los > Angeles,Sacramento,Anaheim later. I know many people enjoyed that instrument andfor me it was a very happy outcome > tonally. > > My Personal Favorite D to Date. Its shop name was "Big Foot', AS it had such a big footprint in the shop for soooo > long. For many reasons it was rebuilding process scattered over about 5 years. > After parading it here and there to conventions it finally sold about 4 years ago to the Arkely center for the > arts, a 1920 Theater restored by a local family in Eureka on the remote North Calif. coast. It was gratifying to place > this beast in a place that was acoustically the pianos equal, a really great space. The center is the hub of culture > in the region and the piano used by the symphony and others. My friend and consummate technician Greg Granoff looks > after the beast now with great care. He is also the head tech for Humboldt state. > I had not seen/heard the piano since I delivered it 4 yrs ago. I've been waiting for the right concerto at the right > moment to make the trek up there to see and hear this piano in concert in this space. > So I was in Eureka Ca. over the weekend, about 300 mile drive from Modesto, to hear...Bigfoot.... > A young local talent Ryan McAvoy McCullough came back to the area to perform the Rachmaninoff 3 thd piano concerto. > Fantastic acoustics, amazing young pianist,...He was near flawless. The performance gripped me on so many emotional > levels. It was similar to seeing one of your children after a long absence. Someones voice you know and love so well > speaking to you again. The sound in the building, the way he bonded to the keyboard & the nuance of tone coming from > the Instrument was truly a culminating moment in my ears and life. The Beast has become the Black beauty! > What a journey that piano has been in my life. The piano/pianist sounded absolutely stellar. Best > performance*__*_I,ve ever _heard on my work. > I'm on cloud nine this am. Beautiful day in that coastal town. Trix, Jacob and Sara all here.... Life is good. > Dale > Aka...tone warrior :) > > > *Dale Erwin... RPT > **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos > www.Erwinspiano.com <http://www.Erwinspiano.com> > 209-577-8397 > * > > > > -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120521/c4b69fe3/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 80797 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120521/c4b69fe3/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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