Hi, Nick! At 12:33 PM 1/29/2011, you wrote: >Thanks, Horace! You bet! >Yeah, it is TOO cool. Alum-a-tone is exactly right! Good sales >phrase -- the tone shimmers like crinkled aluminum foil in the sun. You could almost get a George Hamilton tan in the reflection! >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. Yup...understood. It was a sad day when I finally had to part with my mother's Packard >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. Indeed...whew! >I'm thinking of totally rebuilding this thing and showing it >sometime at a rebuilder's showcase ;-) Now, _that_ would be worth the price of admission! Unprofitable, but very, very fun to do! >See ya soon at WESTPAC this March. Indeed! Cheers! Horace >NG > >On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Horace Greeley ><<mailto:hgreeley at sonic.net>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><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><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
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