<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>LA Olympics (was Re: Have a Fazioli?)</title></head><body> <div>At 12:51 PM -0400 8/14/03, Wimblees@aol.com wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">In a message dated 8/14/03 10:58:23 AM Central Daylight Time, BECKERLR@UCMAIL.UC.EDU writes:</font><br> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">1984 Los Angeles Olympics.  Lots of white Kimballs.</font><br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br> <br> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">If I recall, something like 150 of them. Lots of Los Angeles area pianos techs were used to tune them. If you guys remember Ray Rueter, who worked for Kimball at the time, was one of the tuners, and then also got to play at the opening ceremony.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Guys,</div> <div><br></div> <div>I can't take it anymore  :-)</div> <div><br></div> <div>The misinformation continues ... white? ... 150?</div> <div><br></div> <div>At least now the year and location are correct, *and* that Ray Reuter was involved.</div> <div><br></div> <div>----------</div> <div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">NOTE: I did see your post, Avery, but still decided to send this one from the horse's mouth, so to speak. It's McGavern, by the way.</font></div> <div>----------</div> <div><br></div> <div>Here's a brief factual scoop*:</div> <div><br></div> <div>1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Coliseum</div> <div>Eighty-four (84) blue Kimball Grand pianos</div> <div>They were featured in George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" during the opening ceremony.</div> <div>Five additional tuners were involved besides Ray Reuter:</div> <div>Teri Powell, Bob Cloutier, Mark Wisner, Alan Slater, Emily Goya.</div> <div><br></div> <div>*Piano Technicians Journal<br> September 1985, page 13<br> Olympic Tuning Tests Technicians' Endurance</div> <div>Industry News</div> <div><br></div> <div>More info (condensed ) I posted in 1998 from the Journal article:</div> <div>https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/1998-September/037587.html</div > <div><br></div> <div>Also a great site:</div> <div>http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp</div> <div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><b>ALL THE GAMES SINCE 1896</b></font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Relive the emotion of previous Games</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">by selecting a date or host city</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Oh, and Wim, for some trivia, you were the Central West Vice President at the time. How about that?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div>Cheers to all,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Keith McGavern, RPT<br> Oklahoma Baptist University<br> Saint Gregory's University</div> <div>Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA</div> </body> </html>