<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><base href="x-msg://76/"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thanks, David. I love art, it shakes my senses and awakens me to new places of beauty and ways of seeing. I try to approach art as honestly as I possibly can with beginners mind, as the blank, unjudging receptor, where it comes into me and speaks to me howsoever it will, and I engage with it from my own humanity. Isn’t it like a great meal, where new taste sensations keep rolling over your tongue with every chew? Without art, life would be much less bearable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Andersen<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 11, 2011 11:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] OT: Life goes on....<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, brother....I read your email to Tanya; she was thrilled; she loves getting feedback from "non-art" folks----tends to be much more honest and authentic.....<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>xoxDA<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mar 10, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Encore Pianos wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I am not trying to be clichéd or lascivious when I say that it celebrates the beauty of the female form exuberantly and without inhibition.  And yes, the lines are full of emotion.  Best of all, when I look at it, it elicits differing responses in me.  It speaks to me directly and immediately and continues to give.  I would love to see it in person.  Thanks for sharing David and thanks to Tanya Ragir. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Will</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>David Andersen<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:24 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [pianotech] OT: Life goes on....</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I know. Trust me, you're not the first to think that. Her work is, to me, miraculous, insanely beautiful, full of emotion, and timeless. But I may be biased.......love ya, Mark....<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>DA<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Wow, that's a sculpture?! I had to look closely to realize it wasn't the model. Incredible!<br><br>-- Mark Schecter<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:10 PM, John Formsma <<a href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">formsma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:02 PM, David Andersen <<a href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">david@davidandersenpianos.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>....while I'm piano-geeking night and day, my treasured partner of nine years, Tanya Ragir, is finishing what I believe is her most breathtaking piece.<br><br>She created this out of looking at a model and around 140 pounds of clay---out of thin air. Surreal.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>That is one very naked piece of mud!<br clear=all><br>--<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>JF<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>