<div>David, </div> <div> </div> <div>What file opens this? I haven't been able to see it yet. </div> <div> </div> <div>Avery Todd<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:28 PM, David Andersen <<a href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">david@davidandersenpianos.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word"> <div><br></div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">Ladies and gentlemen -- -- --</font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">I was going to wait until I had the first recording of an Atelier artist in my computer</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">before I made this announcement, but I just couldn't help myself with my</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">beloved list colleagues...so here's a press release (attached below) I just handed to a</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">very fancy PR firm on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Pacific Coast Highway</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">here in beautiful Los Angle-ease who I somehow convinced to represent me for a fraction </font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">of their usual fee-- -- actually, a friend is a principal in the company and he's doing me a</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5"> massive good turn.</font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">I've never felt or heard pianos like the ones that <b>Steingraeber</b> makes. Each one has</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">an idealized action ratio and an idealized balance weight, and lots and lots of power, </font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">sustain, and resonance. As the press release says -- or as Tamir Hendelman says -- they're </font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">dark and powerful and clear and brilliant, all at the same time. Each of the grands I've</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">played -- about 12 in all, I think -- have been at that level that we as</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">technicians dream of.</font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">The <b>uprights</b> are another story entirely: absolutely beautifully,</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">ridiculously great feeling and sounding pianos.  Best of the breed.</font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">This is just another excuse for us "listers"  to get together with each</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">other around a great piano or three; I really hope to see you all at the</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">national conference in Anaheim in June.</font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">There will be a full complement of Steingraeber grands and uprights to</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">thrill and amaze you. Come on by...and enjoy my semi-florid b.s. in the</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">attached press release. </font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="5">Enjoy......</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div><font color="#888888"> <div style="MARGIN: 0px">David Andersen</div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px">Los Angeles, California</div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span></span></div></font></div></div><br> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word"> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span></span></div></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br>