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Bill Ballard yardbird@vermontel.net
Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:23:51 -0400


At 10:02 PM -0500 7/24/03, Alan wrote:
>By the way, Kieth wrote: "The harpsichord is a very light and 
>delicate thing." One of my music profs (Dr. Joe Pivall, So. Ill. 
>Univ. at Edwardsville, outstanding cellist and all around nice guy) 
>publically described the sound of the harpsichord thusly: "Marbles 
>dropping through bedsprings."

It was either Noel Coward or George Bernard Shaw who said that a 
harpsichord sounds like "skeletons copulating on a tin roof".

Mr. Bill

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