On 10-jan-2007, at 18:29, David Andersen wrote: > > 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 > I kinda like that David Andersen. I remember meeting you a couple of years ago in LA and in my memory I see a totally white haired piano technician in a beautiful mercedes. You apparently know something about setting pins. OOR friendly greetings from André Oorebeek Antoni van leeuwenhoekweg 15 1401 VW Bussum the Netherlands tel : 0031 35 6975840 tel : 0031 652388 008 where music is, no harm can be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070111/75657f53/attachment.html
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