I like that... very creative!!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob & Helen Goodale</b> <<a href="mailto:rrg@unlv.nevada.edu">rrg@unlv.nevada.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><strong><u><font size="6">The Life and Times of a piano</font></u></strong></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>By Rob Goodale, RPT - </strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Las Vegas, NV</strong></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Story & Clark 5' 3" grand #120923, 1927  $900.00 in the window.  We deliver!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Daily practice at least an hour.  Scales, theory book, lessons.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Mistakes, start over, too fast, wrong note, where is my pencil?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Recital next week, am I ready?  Getting better now.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Years pass, seasonal tunings, pins hold tight.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sounds good now, keep practicing.  </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Johnny wants to quit, mom says no.  Someday you will thank me, you'll see.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Give me an hour or no radio show!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Johnny goes to war over there.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Piano is silent, waits for victory.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Home coming, family, a new generation.  Mom, can we have the piano?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rock and Roll, I Love Lucy, Good Golly Miss Molly!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">All tuned up, cleaning, regulation.  Here's the bill Mam.  Remember, twice a year!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Time for your lesson, this is middle C.  Tap your foot slowly.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">An hour a day!  Good job!  S</font><font face="Arial" size="2">it up straight!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Back when I was your age...</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Look, all growing up!  Piano is older.  Suzy goes to the prom.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">No time for lessons, college you know.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Bob Dylan, protest, Give Peace a Chance, we have lift off.  My Fellow Americans!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Strings silent again, pitch goes flat, dust on the soundboard.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Disco, Star Wars, time to clean house.  Hey, I'll give you $500 for it.  Are you kidding?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Call the tuner, it's only a couple of bad notes.  This bench seems wobbly.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hammer shaping, regulation, these pins are a little loose.  What does that mean?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I think I paid too much.  It looks bad, maybe I'll paint it myself.  Good lord!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Time to practice, your lesson is next week!  Ahhh mom...  Don't argue!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'll call the tuner.  </font><font face="Arial" size="2">What do you mean it needs a "pitch raise"?  I had it tuned only four years ago!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Mrs. Jones, might I suggest a better instrument?  See the cracks?  Hear the buzz?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">If he learns to play this one I'll buy him a better one!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Goo Goo Dolls, Microsoft, </font><font face="Arial" size="2">READ MY LIPS!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Okay, I'll get rid of it.  He prefers football.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">FOR SALE - BEST OFFER</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">What a deal.  Honey, look what I bought!  Happy Birthday!  What?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sorry Mr. Miller, the pins are loose.  The strings are rusted and the board is cracked.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The bridges are splitting, the hammers are worn, the legs are loose and the bushings are gone.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The wippens are shot, the action is bad, the dampers need replacement.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">CONGRATULATIONS MR. & MRS. MILLER!  You'll love your new piano.  We'll haul off the old one for free.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">"I'll take one last look" says RPT.  Nope, I think she's a gonner.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sad and silent, the keys softly weep.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Eighty years of history, time to sleep.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Taking up space, no hope, the patent is terminal.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">PARTY! - Where's my sledge?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">How about "Monster Truck Night"?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Maybe a nice piano fire, we'll get a keg.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Where is my video camera?  I'm thinking <u>You Tube</u>!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Final chords echo in the face of time.</font></div></div> </blockquote></div><br>