<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Steve Blasyak wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Not sure if you were joking but the QM has been docked in Long Beach</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">for about 25 or 30 years. The piano has been in Sir Winston's lounge for as</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">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></BODY></HTML>