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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: fmurray@cruzio.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 7:49 AM<br>
Subject: Re: California PTGC--thoughts and feelings<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_84ed3710-346c-4402-b070-902a9b461fd4><PRE><TT>Praise God for your health, Brother David.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Andersen" <<A href='javascript:parent.ComposeTo("david%40davidandersenpianos.com", "");'>david@davidandersenpianos.com</A>>
To: "Pianotech Pianotech" <<A href='javascript:parent.ComposeTo("pianotech%40ptg.org", "");'>pianotech@ptg.org</A>>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: California PTGC--thoughts and feelings
> My brothers and sisters----
>
> Was it only last weekend? Wow. The incredible feelings & insights the
> San Francisco convention catalyzed are still really strong and
> present. There was amazing learning, and teaching, and fellowship,
> and laughter---the entire panorama of experiences. The piano I
> brought, to exhibit and teach around, was a 1942 Hamburg "B":
> original "Mediterranean" board, new everything else except keyframe;
> its place in the exhibit hall was on the back wall, between Dale
> Erwin's globally beautiful mahogany long "A" and a powerful,
> mysterious, massive Steingraeber concert grand, which I was given the
> honor of tuning and preparing---thank you, Greg Schultz, Michael
> Campi, and Brian Gatchell; you are good men and fine representatives
> of an amazing piano and its amazing maker, Udo Steingraeber, a true
> piano freak (in the best possible sense.)
>
> The men and women that put on this beautiful convention need to be
> honored again and again---the people I dealt with directly, and who
> were just stellar: Roland Kaplan, Fenton & Rhonda Murray, Lowell and
> Andy from Green Mountain
> Moving, Dave Stahl, Bob Brown, Tom Cole, Jim Ogden, Neil the AV guru,
> Peter Acronico...on and on.
>
> Roland and Fenton, you guys treated me with such respect and
> appreciation---you were fantastic leaders, and you got the best from
> me as an exhibitor and a teacher. That you honored Dale and I by
> fighting for and winning the opportunity to use our pianos for the
> Saturday night concert, with such amazing results, is something I'll
> never be able to express my gratitude for. It was beyond, and I'll
> never forget it. Kenric Tam, the 16-year-old MONSTER who blew my mind
> out of my head both as a performer and a human, was literally beyond
> my dreams. Two of the pieces he played are in my top five classical
> pieces of all time, and I was mesmerized and transported. Both pianos
> sounded so clear, limpid, bell-like, powerful---in a hotel ballroom.
> Go figure. Roland, Bob Shea the sound guy was another miracle, and a
> team player to boot.
>
> To top it all off, I believe the Hamburg "B" will be sold to a man
> who played it on a fluke, really, on Saturday, and fell in love---
> he'd been looking for half a year, and had played a couple dozen
> "B's" with the intention to buy. He and his wife are flying down to
> L.A. in a week or two to "hopefully seal the deal," in his words.
> Ooohhh.
>
> With all the external recognition and success, this last weekend was
> most precious to me because of the love I felt for my colleagues and
> their loved ones, and MY loved ones. That may sound squishy, but
> it's true. Jenika, Satpal, Dale, Trix, Nick and Peg, Jurgen, C.
> Faulk, Mad Peter, Mike Bingham and his rockin' girlfriend, Mark
> Schecter, Dave Stahl, Ed Whitting, Don Mannino, Chris and Karen
> R. ....thanks.
>
> On Tuesday of this week, I found out from my hand surgeon that the
> operations I have to have to repair the tendons damaged by rheumatoid
> arthritis over the past four years won't be as involved as he
> thought---that my hands are actually better and stronger than they
> were 6 months ago. On Friday, I found out, after extensive testing,
> that I had
> no sign of cardiovascular disease and no arterial occlusions, which
> is a big surprise given the massive risk factor of RA coupled with my
> own mild but present hereditary risk factors. Amazing: I'm actually
> kind of healthy, despite having had virulently high levels of
> inflammation in my body for a while. So I'll probably be around to
> bother you and piss you off for a while longer. :--) Gratitude is
> now, has been, and will be my attitude.
>
> BTW: when is this list going to get the recognition and props it
> deserves for the powerful, positive phenomenon it is?
>
> Night-night; I've finally gotten some sleep the past 3 days---been
> doin' NOTHIN'. Just cold chillin'.
>
> Best to all,
>
> David Andersen
> Maliboo, Californ-aye-ay
>
>
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