California PTGC--thoughts and feelings

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Amen!
 
Dave Stahl

-----Original Message-----
From: fmurray at cruzio.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: California PTGC--thoughts and feelings


Praise God for your health, Brother David.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andersen" <david at davidandersenpianos.com>
To: "Pianotech Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: California PTGC--thoughts and feelings


> My brothers and sisters----
> 
> Was it only last weekend? Wow. The incredible feelings & insights the  
> San Francisco convention catalyzed are still really strong and  
> present. There was amazing learning, and teaching, and fellowship,  
> and laughter---the entire panorama of experiences. The piano I  
> brought, to exhibit and teach around, was a 1942 Hamburg "B":   
> original "Mediterranean" board, new everything else except keyframe;  
> its place in the exhibit hall was on the back wall, between Dale  
> Erwin's globally beautiful mahogany long "A" and a powerful,  
> mysterious, massive Steingraeber concert grand, which I was given the  
> honor of tuning and preparing---thank you, Greg Schultz, Michael  
> Campi, and Brian Gatchell; you are good men and fine representatives  
> of an amazing piano and its amazing maker, Udo Steingraeber, a true  
> piano freak (in the best possible sense.)
> 
> The men and women that put on this beautiful convention need to be  
> honored again and again---the people I dealt with directly, and who  
> were just stellar:  Roland Kaplan, Fenton & Rhonda Murray, Lowell and  
> Andy from Green Mountain
> Moving, Dave Stahl, Bob Brown, Tom Cole, Jim Ogden, Neil the AV guru,  
> Peter Acronico...on and on.
> 
> Roland and Fenton, you guys treated me with such respect and  
> appreciation---you were fantastic leaders, and you got the best from  
> me as an exhibitor and a teacher. That you honored Dale and I by  
> fighting for and winning the opportunity to use our pianos for the  
> Saturday night concert, with such amazing results, is something I'll  
> never be able to express my gratitude for. It was beyond, and I'll  
> never forget it. Kenric Tam, the 16-year-old MONSTER who blew my mind  
> out of my head both as a performer and a human, was literally beyond  
> my dreams.  Two of the pieces he played are in my top five classical  
> pieces of all time, and I was mesmerized and transported. Both pianos  
> sounded so clear, limpid, bell-like, powerful---in a hotel ballroom.   
> Go figure.  Roland, Bob Shea the sound guy was another miracle, and a  
> team player to boot.
> 
> To top it all off, I believe the Hamburg "B" will be sold to a man  
> who played it on a fluke, really, on Saturday, and fell in love--- 
> he'd been looking for half a year, and had played a couple dozen  
> "B's" with the intention to buy.  He and his wife are flying down to  
> L.A. in a week or two to "hopefully seal the deal," in his words.  
> Ooohhh.
> 
> With all the external recognition and success, this last weekend was  
> most precious to me because of the love I felt for my colleagues and  
> their loved ones, and MY loved ones.  That may sound squishy, but  
> it's true. Jenika, Satpal, Dale, Trix, Nick and Peg, Jurgen, C.  
> Faulk, Mad Peter, Mike Bingham and his rockin' girlfriend, Mark  
> Schecter, Dave Stahl, Ed Whitting, Don Mannino, Chris and Karen  
> R. ....thanks.
> 
> On Tuesday of this week, I found out from my hand surgeon that the  
> operations I have to have to repair the tendons damaged by rheumatoid  
> arthritis over the past four years won't be as involved as he  
> thought---that my hands are actually better and stronger than they  
> were 6 months ago. On Friday, I found out, after extensive testing,  
> that I had
> no sign of cardiovascular disease and no arterial occlusions, which  
> is a big surprise given the massive risk factor of RA coupled with my  
> own mild but present hereditary risk factors. Amazing: I'm actually  
> kind of healthy, despite having had virulently high levels of  
> inflammation in my body for a while. So I'll probably be around to  
> bother you and piss you off for a while longer. :--)  Gratitude is  
> now, has been, and will be my attitude.
> 
> BTW: when is this list going to get the recognition and props it  
> deserves for the powerful, positive phenomenon it is?
> 
> Night-night; I've finally gotten some sleep the past 3 days---been  
> doin' NOTHIN'. Just cold chillin'.
> 
> Best to all,
> 
> David Andersen
> Maliboo, Californ-aye-ay
> 
> 
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