----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: June 06, 2003 9:42 AM Subject: OT Re: Steinway sostenuto bar/Del > > >"....take a whole lot of unexpected vibration in certain airplanes under > >certain conditions...." > >Yeah, Del, those olde Jennys really shook a lot! <G> > >Regards, > >Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) > > > I met an old 37 year Master Sergeant back in 1968 who had started out in > the Cavalry, eventually becoming an Aircraft Carpenter. I don't know what > he did at the time I knew him, and I'm not so sure he did either. > > Ron N > And Aircraft "Carpenter?" Now that does go back a bit. One of the reasons our pacific northwest's old-growth forests have been stripped nearly bare was to supply choice Sitka spruce for fighter airplane and glider construction during WWII. (It's only one of the reasons--we've thought of many others since....) Del
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