<HEAD> <STYLE>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Clint Eastwood, (maybe you already know?),  is actually quite a piano lover and player.  I'm not sure he'd have a cowboy piano.  </DIV> <DIV>The Duke?  Yeah, more likely.</DIV> <DIV>Check out, e.g., Mr. Eastwood with Marian McPartland on Piano Jazz:<BR><A href="http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/previousguests/summer2006/eastwood.html">http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/previousguests/summer2006/eastwood.html</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Chuck C.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Rob & Helen Goodale <RRG@UNLV.NEVADA.EDU><BR>Sent: May 17, 2007 10:09 PM <BR>To: Pianotech List <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Subject: Most unique "finishes" WAS: Sacrilege to any piano ..... <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3086" name="GENERATOR"> <STYLE></STYLE> </ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY bgColor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had a call to work on a piano that pretty much took the cake.  The owner was <U>really</U> into a western motif and the piano was made to match perfectly.  The entire case was covered in leather.  There were decorative studs around the edges.  In the center on top were mounted a pair of roped bull's horns, (like the hood ornament on the front of Boss Hogg's Cadillac convertible).  The bench was replaced with an old tractor seat.  On top of course were the boots, spurs, whip, hat, etc.  If Clint Eastwood played the piano this would be the one he would own!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>