<HTML>List Today I tuned an old Kimball 7 foot grand.  I didn't check the serial = number but it dates back to the 1920s or earlier.  The story is that t= he piano was originally built for a touring artist who travelled with the pi= ano.  The artist's name, or so the story goes, was Bachmann, or someth= ing like that. I crawled under the piano and found two signatures in pencil on the soundboa= rd at the extreme treble.  One of the highly stylized signatures was a= ccompanied by the date, 1925.  At first it was difficult to make out a= ny letters at all.  Examining it more closely, I started to think that= it actually might say "George Gershwin"!  The George was pretty clear= , but the Gershwin was more like "Gersh-------".  (a wavy line)  = And, the two stlylized G's, if that's what they were, were not the same as = each other.  One could be an "S" or something else... I got home tonight and dug out my Complete Works of George Gershwin, and rig= ht on the cover was his signature, and lo and behold, the two G's were not t= he same.  The "shwin" part of his surname was clear, though.  St= ill, it's possible he hurried the signature along and it came out a bit slop= py on this piano...right?  >From my memory the two signatures seem pretty close.  Still, I plan to= stop by with my copy of the Complete Works and compare the signatures befor= e I lay legitimate claim to this "BRUSH WITH GREATNESS". Go ahead, shoot me down, but it still made for an interesting day for me,<BR= > Tom Sivak </HTML>