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Shifting
gears from the most interesting thread on “best “ =
pianos.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Early in my training while working with the late Paul =
Hegent
RPT in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Sebring</span></font><font size=2 =
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fla.</span></font><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(1974) I was
helping in his little shop, trying to hear the beats on the Memphis =
-Aeolian spinets
and consoles that Paul was then selling . I felt like giving up =
when we
went to an old tourist hotel and in the nightclub---was a six foot =
Sohmer -worn
to hell, but WOW! Those thirds and sixths and tenths just jumped out at =
me.</span></font></p>
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Maybe
I can do this! </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My most memorable =
piano.</span></font></p>
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p; Tom
Driscoll</span></font></p>
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