---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Sad story indeed Phil... and I have just one thing to say... at least at the moment.... :) and that is..... I just hope these are not the same kind of people who would eventually get to carry guns on planes. :) philromano@attglobal.net wrote: > I have to chime in here to tell a very sad story. a number of years > ago I was called to by my brother ( a sound system installer) to come > to a nightclub that he had been contracted by, to look at a piano that > the owners wanted to get "tuned". This particular nightclub catered to > gay clientele ( as Jerry Seinfeld said "not that there's anything > wrong with that!"). The piano was similar to what is being described > here. The owner's grandma had left it to her and she thought it would > be the perfect thing to use in the "piano bar" section of the club. > The instrument needed much TLC and the services of someone like Ed > Swenson et al. I pleaded with them to remove it from the premises and > have a proper restoration done or sell it to me. They wouldn't hear of > it. The last I heard they had removed the action, painted it white and > installed some electronic keyboard and had many patrons dancing on the > lid to the booming beat of the DJ. The action ended up in the > dumpster and was carted off before I could retrieve it. The club has > since long closed. Good riddance. May the Erard r.i.p. Phil Romano > Myrtle Beach, SC > philromano@attglobal.net -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/03/b2/20/f9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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