<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV> <DIV>Hey Now,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't think I used the word custom, but don't get me wrong not trying to nit pic. The piano is unique. Yes they are all trashed. They only use two Kawai's the Chappel in the lobby and the Steinway to my knowledge. I've heard there are more pianos in the bowels of the ship somewhere but I haven't seen them. I've been tuning and some minor repairs trying to keep the barely playable for about five or six years now. My dear friend Lisa Weller passed the job off to me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steve</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pura Vida</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=david@davidandersenpianos.com href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">David Andersen</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=atuneforyou@earthlink.net href="mailto:atuneforyou@earthlink.net">atuneforyou@earthlink.net</A>;<A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 1/10/2007 9:29:04 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Grand Caster Replacement</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Steve Blasyak wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=5>Not sure if you were joking but the QM has been docked in Long Beach</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=5>for about 25 or 30 years. The piano has been in Sir Winston's lounge for as</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=5>long as I can remember.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV> <DIV>Dude! I tuned and "maintained" the pianos on the Queen Mary from 1984 to 1987. That piano (the custom-looking "C") was thrashed then.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Mike Farnell (Pacific Piano Supply) and I restrung a bunch of those pianos onsite back then...how many pianos, and what kind, are still in use on the old girl?</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>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). </DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>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. </DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>And I still had dark hair. <g></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>