Thanks, Horace! Yeah, it is TOO cool. Alum-a-tone is exactly right! Good sales phrase -- the tone shimmers like crinkled aluminum foil in the sun. The old buggy with a genuine Alcoa Plate was mfg. circa mid to late 1940s, a gift to my mother from my father, and began its musical life in a third-story walk up apartment in Da Bronx, NY after which it moved to two locations in NJ where I went to school and grew up. I played in Jersey rock 'n roll bands and club date bands all through the 60s and half the 70s (prior to moving west) and we used this humble music box to work out innumerable chord changes and arrangements. It has served well, and I am happy to have inherited it after my folks passed on. The piano comes to me complete with a hole drilled down through the top of one key. In his youth, my curious older brother Anthony (called Tony or Ant'ny) just had to know if piano keys were solid "ivory" --- he learned that they are neither solid nor ivory. I was more than amused watching him try to explain this to our Bronxian father, Vinny --- a Kodak moment. I'm thinking of totally rebuilding this thing and showing it sometime at a rebuilder's showcase ;-) See ya soon at WESTPAC this March. NG On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Horace Greeley <hgreeley at sonic.net> wrote: > > Wow, Nick! > > ...complete with Almun-a-tone plate! How cool is that? > > Cheers! > > Horace > > > > At 08:30 AM 1/29/2011, you wrote: > >> Oops, meant to send this photo. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Nicholas Gravagne <<mailto: >> ngravagne at gmail.com>ngravagne at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Joseph Garrett <<mailto: >> joegarrett at earthlink.net>joegarrett at earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> Oh, BTW, I try to avoid Drummers at all cost! A scurvy bunch of >> Neanderthals if ever there wuz! >> >> >> Ah, Joe! --- now you've really gone to far ;-) >> >> Alright, come on over with your bass and let's jam on my Winter Spinet! >> >> NG >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nick Gravagne, RPT >> AST Mechanical Engineering >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nick Gravagne, RPT >> AST Mechanical Engineering >> Content-Type: application/pdf; name="Salsa Spinet2.pdf" >> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Salsa Spinet2.pdf" >> X-Attachment-Id: f_gjiqmo621 >> > > -- Nick Gravagne, RPT AST Mechanical Engineering -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110129/a8eec7f0/attachment.htm>
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