Actually that lucky person who'll be playing it is george Michael . . . . . ( guys with two first names sound a bit 'made up' . . ? ) ----------------------------------------------------- Jim Kinnear www.pianoguy.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barrie Heaton" <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: Re: John Lennon's Steinway > It's possibly Sir Paul McCartney buying it for the museum in > Liverpool. That was the educated guess on the Local news tonight. > > Barrie, > > > In article <39EDC77B.6A044B2E@nevada.edu>, Robert goodale > <rrg@nevada.edu> writes > >I wonder who the lucky one will be who gets to tune it ;-) > > > >Anyone on this list know anything directly about this piano? Has anyone here > >worked on it? Someone's gotta know someone who is familiar with it. > > > >Rob Goodale, RPT > >Las Vegas, NV > > > > > >John Musselwhite wrote: > > > >> Hi Folks. > >> > >> I was just watching the news and saw that John Lennon's Steinway "Z" > >> vertical he bought in 1970 for about $1,000 pounds and on which he > >composed > >> "Imagine" sold at auction today to an anonymous buyer for 1.5 million > >> pounds ($2,080,000 USD or a cool $3 million CDN)! > >> > >> See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001017/re/britain_lennon_dc_8.html > >> > >> Let's hope it remains on display in a museum rather than sitting in Michael > >> Jackson's (for example only) living room! > >> > >> Does anyone know anything about this model? I've seen a "V" (lovely > >> piano!), but never a "Z". Is it properly called a "Zed" or a "Zee"? > >> > >> It looked like a continental-style 1098... but at two million bucks perish > >> the thought! > >> > >> John > >> John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada > >> http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary > >> email: john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom > > > > > > -- > Barrie Heaton PGP key on request http://www.a440.co.uk/ > AcryliKey Ivory Repair System UK © http://www.acrylikey.co.uk/ > The U.K. Piano Page © http://www.uk-piano.org/ > Home to the UK Piano Industry >
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