Getting rid of a piano.

[The Medway Handyman]

Dudley? You live in Dudley? Bloody hell that explains a lot...

[Owain]

Well, no. I don't suppose they'd know how to switch it on, or Maud (the late Daphne Heard) would have used the instructions to light the boiler. But maybe they would have preferred a tuned electric piano to the average village hall instrument, which I don't imagine met with their approval very frequently.

Owain

[Andy Champ]

I'm pretty sure he knows that's silly.

But since I attach no importance to the torque output of an engine (I care about power output, power spread, and efficiency) I've never bothered to work out what units he means.

Andy

[geoff]

Believe it or not I have played Dudley town hall ...

over 30 years ago

guitar, not piano, though

[Andy Champ]

Fascinating sentence. I think I can guess what you mean but the concept of non-acoustic sound is quite interesting!

Andy

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal saying something like:

They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.

[Owain]

I can imagine the hall being used by a youth group the night before and the keyboard being left on Calypso Rock or some such setting. Dr Evadne would be transposing fit to burst a girdle.

Owain

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

part of £10k I should hope it does sound/feel like the proper job. :¬)

[Stephen Howard]

Not much point using an out-of-tune piano ( aka a Paino ), they'd be better off without it - and the paper bag over the head gag would fall a bit flat without a Joanna.

I can, mainly because I've stood barely 12 feet away from Elton while he played a digital piano at one of my gigs. Don't recall what make it was - but to be honest I wasn't really paying much attention to the gear. I know he's not averse to playing a Fender Rhodes either.

Regards,

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

Electric? :¬)

[Stephen Howard]

Would have made an excellent episode for their radio show though!

Regards,

[geoff]

In message ,

writes

Dudley town hall - what else ?

[Stephen Howard]

Funny that - that's pretty much what was said of the first pianos in the early 18th century. It wasn't until the 1760s that the concept gained any real sort of acceptance.

Regards,

[Derek Geldard]

Coal ?

Derek

[The Medway Handyman]

Bostin.

[geoff]

Nah- no G-string

[Stephen Howard]

It's called a 'rest' ;)

Regards,

[Stephen Howard]

They don't burn as long either.

Regards,

[Stephen Howard]

Hilda: Heavens Evadne, what on EARTH is that dreadful sound m'dear?

Evadne: It says here...."Hammond"

Hilda: Eh m'dear, wassat? Gammon? Gammon?? I always said you were ham-fisted m'dear.

Evandne: Yes, very droll, thank you. No, not gammon, Hammond - I believe it's some kind of organ.

Hilda: Spleen, I'll be bound.

Evadne: I hope I didn't hear what I thought I just I heard!

Hilda: If you can't make it sound any different that's precisely what the audience will be saying. Try pressing a few buttons.

Evadne: Well, if you insist

Together: Ahh, Bach!

Regards,

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Stephen Howard saying something like:

You got that right. I not-so-fondly recall, as a kid, struggling away on a succession of uprights in shiny brown wood, wrestling noises from them and hoping they would magically fall to pieces so I could go home. Ye gods, what I would have given then for a digital piano - even a Casio keyboard - what joyful sounds could have been made to squawk from it.

By the time they appeared, the dream was dead.