PESTO home made piano back

[pianoman]

Hello Ol Lar,
You must be on the high test stuff tonight!
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G.
 Since 1962 in St. Louis, MO.
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> From: Larry Fisher <larryf@pacifier.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: PESTO home made piano
> Date: Saturday, August 29, 1998 1:11 AM
> 
> Yeah,
> 
> This guy had this car for sale that I wanted and so this is how we met.
> He's selling his plumbing business, has a kid in the hopper, two running
> wild .....  breaking everything, the house is for sale, he bought a $6300
> Trooper his wife hates, and he built his own picnic table.  Now he and
his
> buddy wants to build a piano.  At first I thought this guy's not for
real.
> But he was!!  So he persued the conversation with some vitality.  So
after
> he convinced me he was for real, I asked him what he's going to do for a
> plate.  He said, " A plate, what's that??"  and what followed was the
usual
> about what's the plate for, how thick is it, why does it have to be
there,
> and so I mentioned at this point the 30 tons of stress across the
structure.
> I know now that I was about 10 tons off according to the recent posts on
> this, but he'll never know the difference.  He said, "30 tons!!  Why so
> much??"  Yeah, well, I think I convinced him not to build his own piano,
and
> I bought his car for $1000 less than he was asking.
> 
> VIOLA is voila spelled by a dyslectic, and the PESTO part is the very
tasty
> nutty (nut case with class) part and the FINE is the Italian musical term
> that blends the indicator of the end of the remark with a musical term so
> that it looks like I'm musically aligned, slightly skrewed up, and have a
> palate for exquisite food all contained in an Italian aire.  OH .....  my
> goodness, my communicator just went off, the mother ship is calling me. 
I
> need to get my connectors cleaned.  This planet's atmosphere is a bit
> corrosive.  See ya!
> 
> lar
> 
>                                     Larry Fisher RPT
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