<div class="envelope" style="float: none;" align="left"><img src="cid:tie_8CF05BBDBDFF25F_1C44_3CA90" id="TIE.770949" style="margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" alt="Arkely-1.jpg" class="AOLInlineImage" title="Arkely-1.jpg" width="275"></div> <div> <div class="envelope" style="float: none;" align="left"><img src="cid:tie_8CF05BBDBE253C0_1C44_3CA91" id="TIE.790723" style="margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" alt="Arkley-2.jpg" class="AOLInlineImage" title="Arkley-2.jpg" width="275"></div> <div>  The Front and Back side of the Arkley theater Eureka.  Incredible mural work. Recognize the Maestro? hmm? </div> </div> <div style="clear:both">Dale Erwin... RPT Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos www.Erwinspiano.com 209-577-8397 <tt><tt>     </tt></tt> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 2:08 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Big Foot in Concert <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_101a9048-789b-4b2f-b204-b14874c676a4" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>How can a - Monster Truck - "Big Foot" - be in a concert ???? <a href="http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/home.html</a> On 05/21/2012 02:39 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > > It had pictures but it didn't get thru so maybe later > > *Dale Erwin... RPT > **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos > <a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com" target="_blank">www.Erwinspiano.com</a> > 209-577-8397 > * > > > > > 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 :) > > > *Dale Erwin... RPT > **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S pianos > <a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com" target="_blank">www.Erwinspiano.com</a> <<a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com" target="_blank">http://www.Erwinspiano.com</a>> > 209-577-8397 > * > > > > -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 <a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a> <a href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com" target="_blank">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</a> -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years </tt></pre> </div>  </div>