<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just because you can't find and/or follow the melody doesn't mean there isn't one.  Did you ever think that (from your own words "I really don't play") it might be too abstract for you to find/hear?  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oscar Peterson was one of the greatest Jazz Pianists ever and this video is a wonderful example of his incredible playing which was not influenced by drugs of any kind. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To say that you "could probably come up with something like he is doing" is ludicrous and your reference to drugs was more than a little offensive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you really feel that you could "come up with something like he is doing" - How about we give you a year?  Ten years?  A lifetime?  10 lifetimes?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brooks Weisman RPT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dahechler@charter.net href="mailto:dahechler@charter.net">Hechler Family</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:40 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Oscar Peterson</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I listened to this all the way through. <BR><BR>I never could get used to this form of jazz because WHERE THE HELL IS THE MELODY ?<BR><BR>I really don't play BUT I could probably come up with something like he is doing!<BR><BR>No offense to anyone who likes this form of jazz but being my teenage years was the 60's and 70's, this sounds like something composed on cocaine or pot.<BR><BR>Tom Driscoll wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid001c01c84711$40f14930$6500a8c0@piano type="cite"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>Ahhhh----So long Big Man.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    Tom D.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2><A href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws">http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">-- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild Reed Organ Society Member St. Louis, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:dahechler@charter.net">dahechler@charter.net</A> <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</A> -- Home & Business user of Linux - 9+ years</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>