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I think he ended up pitching for the Giants, didn't he?
Yeah my Dad went to Grinell, a small school here in Iowa, on the GI BILL. In those days, Uncle Sam would pay the tuition of any school, regardless of cost. If you got accepted that is. These days it's just a monthly stipend that hardly pays anything, still a good deal, but... Anyway they are sitting on about a $2 billion dollars with a B endowment, and they used to hit up dear old dad every year for donations when he was living on Social Security. If people think "College Should Be Free", certainly the professors will be willing to volunteer their services gratis, and the Colleges can draw off their endowments instead of hitting up the po' folk for charity and tax hikes on people who don't even want to go to college. Gah. For the "best and brightest" they sure are cranking out hordes of stupid ****ers these days.
Yeah for some reason I didn't realize, there is actually an "Associated Pipe Organ Builders Association" or APOBA.org (undoubtedly you're a member in good standing) I like the sound of "honky tonk" pianos. This is done in many songs and movies by using what's called a "tack piano", tacks or nails are installed on the hammers to give that distinctive old-timey or saloon sound. I think the strings are are detuned a bit.
Do you tune your Baldwin piano yourself? That's a whole 'nuther deal.
Yeah my Dad went to Grinell, a small school here in Iowa, on the GI BILL. In those days, Uncle Sam would pay the tuition of any school, regardless of cost. If you got accepted that is. These days it's just a monthly stipend that hardly pays anything, still a good deal, but... Anyway they are sitting on about a $2 billion dollars with a B endowment, and they used to hit up dear old dad every year for donations when he was living on Social Security. If people think "College Should Be Free", certainly the professors will be willing to volunteer their services gratis, and the Colleges can draw off their endowments instead of hitting up the po' folk for charity and tax hikes on people who don't even want to go to college. Gah. For the "best and brightest" they sure are cranking out hordes of stupid ****ers these days.
Yeah for some reason I didn't realize, there is actually an "Associated Pipe Organ Builders Association" or APOBA.org (undoubtedly you're a member in good standing) I like the sound of "honky tonk" pianos. This is done in many songs and movies by using what's called a "tack piano", tacks or nails are installed on the hammers to give that distinctive old-timey or saloon sound. I think the strings are are detuned a bit.
Do you tune your Baldwin piano yourself? That's a whole 'nuther deal.
Different ******* Perry, this fellow was a theater organist during the silent film era and was still playing at LATOS venues in the 1970's.
The Shrine Auditorium has a 4 manual Moeller, a theater in Hollywood still has their 5 manual Wurlitzer, and there are more of these organs extant.
Some have been restored, some are being restored, some are past restoring and are only good for parts.
I have a 85 key Fey Upright piano, serial #5. The Pierce Piano Atlas says that Fey was founded in 1881, but the first key has January 1879 written on the side of it in pencil.
Fey was located in the Mission District of San Francisco, another member of Fey's family invented the slot machine. When I removed the belly board, found 30 some dollars in silver coins.
The piano dealer I bought it from said it had come from a "bawdy house" in Sacramento. The woman who owned the piano store said one of her aunts had bought it new.
I restored the Fey, the only thing I've done with the Baldwin was to replace some of its ivory keys that had chipped. I found some real ivory at a piano store in Hollywood.
My grandmother bought the Baldwin new when she lived in Chicago, had it brought to CA when she moved here in 1933, along with her furniture that I have most of.
. Either that or poor George is sitting on you, dang you’re uncomfortable. 
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