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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Pictures, Jack, pictures....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=JWyatt1492@AOL.COM
href="mailto:JWyatt1492@AOL.COM">JWyatt1492@AOL.COM</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=Pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> July 14, 2002 12:10 =
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> A ''Babcock'' for =
PTG.</DIV>
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Hello to
All,<BR><BR> To bring everybody up to date.<BR>A few =
months
ago I was able to get a coustomer <BR>of mine to donate a " =
Heintzman
Transposer" upr. <BR>to the Foundation for our Museum. This =
piano
<BR>will transpose one full octave. Leon Speir and I =
<BR>took this
piano to K.C. <BR> <BR> Recently I have =
been
working with a Faimly to<BR>donate a real " Babcock
Pianoforte " to our<BR>Foundation. The final negotiations got a =
little
tense<BR>at one time and I thought I would loose the =
Piano.<BR>However,
I can now tell you that PTGF has a real<BR>" Babcock Pianoforte" =
And it
is in my shop as you<BR>read this. <BR><BR> =
For the
record It was Babock, NOT Chickering,<BR>who =
invented
the full iron plate, It was Babcock, <BR>NOT =
Steinway,
who invented the overstrung scale.<BR>and it was Babcock who invented =
the, all
felt hammer.<BR> <BR> This Babcock was made =
for John
G. Klemm in<BR>Philadelpha. This fact dates it being built =
between
<BR>1831-1833. The only number we can find is 297.<BR>It =
has 68
keys FF to c4.<BR><BR> I hope to have this =
Piano
repaired by our 003<BR>convention in Dallas so we can have it on =
display.<BR><BR> As the Home office does not have room for =
it<BR>in the Museum I guess I will store it in my shop,
<BR> Maybe we can get a Home Office building<BR>large =
enough to
house all of our Museum by <BR>the 007 Convention in =
K.C.
keep your fingers <BR>crossed. This Board is working hard =
on
saving<BR>money. and have made much progress. Maybe <BR>they can =
get this done too. <BR><BR>Regards, to All<BR>Jack Wyatt =
--- a
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