Grand Caster Replacement

[David Andersen]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Steve Blasyak wrote:
> Not sure if you were joking but the QM has been docked in Long Beach
> for about 25 or 30 years. The piano has been in Sir Winston's  
> lounge for as
> long as I can remember.

Dude! I tuned and "maintained" the pianos on the Queen Mary from 1984  
to 1987. That piano (the custom-looking "C") was thrashed then.

Mike Farnell (Pacific Piano Supply) and I restrung a bunch of those  
pianos onsite back then...how many pianos, and what kind, are still  
in use on the old girl?

Memories, memories (sung to the tune of the same name)---that was  
like a different life:  I was living in Long Beach, and Sherman Clay  
was the 800-pound gorilla in town, selling Steinways, Sohmers, Young  
Chang, some Kawai, some Korean pianos, in stores all over greater LA  
and all over the western United States; I prepared pianos in I think  
4 stores at that time; they were by far my largest client during  
those years ('83-'87).

I would spend 2 and sometimes 3 days a week in a warehouse in a vast  
gray industrial/oil processing plant sector of Carson, California,  
about 10 miles north of Long Beach, preparing new Steinways and  
supervising 2 or 3 other techs in preparing new Daewoo (Sojin) or  
Hanil pianos from Korea---massive warranty issues---and working 10-12  
hours a day, 6 days a week, scrambling to support a young family and  
a beautiful woman with expensive tastes.

And I still had dark hair. <g>

David Andersen

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