John Formsma wrote: >Should we really say, "It > needs a match!" :-D (rhetorical sarcastic question) Why not? My wife's father used to tell them that "If it was a horse, I'd shoot it". I've always been fond of the "crappie shelter" suggestion myself. Homeless fish need help too, you know, and you avoid the visual of whacking ol' Dobbin. The truly horrifying thing for me here is that the church has two of these things with consecutive serial numbers. How might this tragedy occur? Did the church suddenly feel the need to commit mass (?) stupidity and buy two winter spinets one day? I'd bet the farm against that one, though somewhat reluctantly (being a big fan of mass stupidity). This leaves donations for social credit and tax write off. The Wumpersons donated the lone used D in the sanctuary as a memorial to Great Uncle Bilious, but the Ampersands donated TWO, count 'em, TWO brand new pianos in Mary Louise Louise Redundant's name, soundly trumping the Wumpersons two to one in donation volume, and at a quite reasonable price at that! How can it possibly get better? Well, if they'd had a couple of old uprights to unload, they wouldn't have had to go shopping for the absolute cheapest new pianos they could find, but you sometimes have to make concessions to the situation of the moment. The important thing is trumping the Wumpersons, with the write off a close second. The unregulated benefactor, and the official committee, are among the most dangerous forces careening through the unnatural affairs of the species. Ron N
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