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Incredible mural work. Recognize the Maestro? hmm?<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Duaine Hechler <<a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a>><br>
To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 2:08 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Big Foot in Concert<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>How can a - Monster Truck - "Big Foot" - be in a concert ????
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html">http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html</a>
On 05/21/2012 02:39 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
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> It had pictures but it didn't get thru so maybe later
>
> *Dale Erwin... RPT
> **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com">www.Erwinspiano.com</a>
> 209-577-8397
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> I admit this a bit of a sentimental journey but this is part and parcel of
our work and a part we may need more of.
> Many of you may remember the 1928 D that I took to the rebuilders Gallery in
Rochester N.Y. 2006 & Los
> Angeles,Sacramento,Anaheim later. I know many people enjoyed that instrument
andfor me it was a very happy outcome
> tonally.
>
> My Personal Favorite D to Date. Its shop name was "Big Foot', AS it had such
a big footprint in the shop for soooo
> long. For many reasons it was rebuilding process scattered over about 5 years.
> After parading it here and there to conventions it finally sold about 4
years ago to the Arkely center for the
> arts, a 1920 Theater restored by a local family in Eureka on the remote North
Calif. coast. It was gratifying to place
> this beast in a place that was acoustically the pianos equal, a really great
space. The center is the hub of culture
> in the region and the piano used by the symphony and others. My friend and
consummate technician Greg Granoff looks
> after the beast now with great care. He is also the head tech for Humboldt
state.
> I had not seen/heard the piano since I delivered it 4 yrs ago. I've been
waiting for the right concerto at the right
> moment to make the trek up there to see and hear this piano in concert in this
space.
> So I was in Eureka Ca. over the weekend, about 300 mile drive from Modesto,
to hear...Bigfoot....
> A young local talent Ryan McAvoy McCullough came back to the area to perform
the Rachmaninoff 3 thd piano concerto.
> Fantastic acoustics, amazing young pianist,...He was near flawless. The
performance gripped me on so many emotional
> levels. It was similar to seeing one of your children after a long absence.
Someones voice you know and love so well
> speaking to you again. The sound in the building, the way he bonded to the
keyboard & the nuance of tone coming from
> the Instrument was truly a culminating moment in my ears and life. The Beast
has become the Black beauty!
> What a journey that piano has been in my life. The piano/pianist sounded
absolutely stellar. Best
> performance*__*_I,ve ever _heard on my work.
> I'm on cloud nine this am. Beautiful day in that coastal town. Trix, Jacob and
Sara all here.... Life is good.
> Dale
> Aka...tone warrior :)
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> *Dale Erwin... RPT
> **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos
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Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding
Reed Organ Society Member
Florissant, MO 63034
(314) 838-5587
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