---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment BILL !! you've lost weight !! :) Fun to get in the news... congrats RicB Bill Ballard wrote: > Remember the Krakauer grand which I told of finishing up for last > Easter Sunday, at the Congo Church just south of me. (Among other > things, I showed up for the pre-service pancake breakfast, got roped > into a choir rehearsal, as stayed fro the service.) I included a > long-shot picture of the piano in the sanctuary. ("Easter Sunday" > 4/20/03) The Church members put off plans for an inaugural concert > until this Fall (actually this Saturday upcoming). And there was a > nice story in the local paper on Tues. (first page of which posted > here as a graphic, the remaining text at the url below). I still can't > believe how well this piano lasted, sitting as it did for decades, > derelict in a dusty old grange hall. The beech action parts were > fracturing, strings were popping, applique carving was falling off and > walking away. But under neath this near-century of neglect was a very > string board and block (I went from 2/0x2.375 to 3/0x2.5 and it feels > brand-new.) Since then I've found an identical Krakauer 4 years older > in a Unitarian Church the next town over, with the same strong signs > of what it has to offer, speaking through the 100 year-old materials. > So there's my fifteen minutes of fame. Bill Ballard RPTNH Chapter, > P.T.G. > > "All God's Children got Rhythm" > ...........Ivy Anderson in "A Day at the > Races"+++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1743159,00.html > [Image] -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment --------------9B81A3CDA6730193BEA49039 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/9e/4a/21/12/attachment.htm --------------9B81A3CDA6730193BEA49039 A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: glory_rats.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 63067 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c7/da/e5/3f/glory_rats.jpg --------------9B81A3CDA6730193BEA49039-- ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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