At 03:10 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: > Hello to All, > > To bring everybody up to date. >A few months ago I was able to get a coustomer >of mine to donate a " Heintzman Transposer" upr. >to the Foundation for our Museum. This piano >will transpose one full octave. Leon Speir and I >took this piano to K.C. > Is that the piano that Irving Berlin had commissioned? As the legend goes, he could only play in the key of F# and had a transposing upright commissioned so he could accompany singers, who required accompaniment in keys other than F#. Matt
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