<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: 22nd day of xmas</title> </head> <body> <p>Better still...20 wretched beckets...<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/></p> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Noah Haverkamp" <noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com> </noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com><br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Received: 12/22/2007 8:56:54 PM<br/>Subject: 22nd day of xmas<br/><br/> <div align="left">I think the prefix "a-" should only be placed before words where another syllable is required to make the rythm correct.  So: <br/>"16 pins a-pomelled" is good. but "20 beckets a-buckling" adds an extra syllable. "20 beckets buckling" sounds good. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> With twenty two hammers a-hobbling<br/>   Twenty one crusty keypins<br/>   Twenty beckets a-buckling<br/>   Nineteen shanks a-squiggling<br/>   Eighteen keys a-knocking<br/>   Seventeen barren backchecks<br/>   Sixteen pins a-pommelled<br/>   Fifteen butts a-bounding<br/>   Fourteen wobbly whippens<br/>   Thirteen coins a-clinking,<br/>   Twelve tubby bass strings,<br/>   Eleven  jacks a-jumping,<br/>   Ten grungy grommets,<br/>   Nine brittle bridles,<br/>   Eight damaged dampers,<br/>   Seven fractured flanges,<br/>   Six errant elbows,<br/>   Five broken strings !<br/>   Four coats of paint,<br/>   Three warped posts,<br/>   Two pedals bent,<br/>   From a Parson who wants it fixed free !<br/></div><br/><br/>Noah Haverkamp<br/>Know-a Piano<br/>http://www.knowapiano.com<br/>347-308-0094<br/>Fax: 718-701-2071 </div> </body> </html>