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A more up-to-date photo of your Canadian moderator...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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Here is a more recent picture of me, taken a couple days ago. SPP-Ottawa, Is that Lake Superior behind you?  |
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Canada
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SPP-Ottawa, Is that Lake Superior behind you Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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This was taken yesterday. Myself and Mrs Trout are on a fishing/camping trip on the Pilbara coast and thanks to a nearby gas/oil installation I have internet/phone connectivity  These mud crabs can easily take a finger off if you get careless but they are worth that risk because they are incredibly nice to eat.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Those are huge claws. The crab probably weight 4-5 lbs?
Look like you are having a lot of fun, Trout.
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United States
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United States
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Looks like a great time Trout!  |
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Canada
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Playing a 1931 Heintzman grand. Beautiful veneering on this piano.  |
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United States
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SlurExe97 -- no picture!
I want to see the piano. I have a Heintzman - the tall upright though,
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Canada
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How about here? https://sites.google.com/site/blank...e/under-homeI tried to take a picture of the veneer but the glare from the overhead lamp makes it impossible. I've played on a large Heintzman upright too, built in the early 1900s I believe. Still has ivory keys. |
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United States
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Very Nice! Mine is just plain old black. It has the same action as a grand but, well, there's just something a little more grand about playing a grand, especially one as beautiful as the one you're playing. Lucky you!
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Canada
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There are several pianos around campus, I do wish they take better care of their them. They've each got their own little issues, though I doubt there's anything major since they're all playable.
The building I took this picture in, there are other Heintzman grands also from the 1930s though this one is my favourite being the most private and nobody is listening to me practice.
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09/10/2016 5:31 pm
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They must be doing something right because pianos don't improve with age. Mine has survived the last 30 years because I'm the only one playing it.  But when I was in college (in the mid-70's) the practice pianos in the conservatory got replaced every couple of years. They were in use nearly constantly. I don't recall there being any piano at school being more than a few years old. I think it's really nice that you get to play on such a lovely instrument. Nice to know a fellow pianist too! |
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Canada
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Nice to know a fellow pianist to you too Buddy  I wonder if there are any more pianists around? Pianos won't improve with age but these have been allowed to deteriorate. Well, being in a university residence hall won't do them much good with all the abuse it gets - humidity, spilled drinks, graffiti, plastic or ivory broken off the keys, etc.. These pianos were just given some rushed maintenance last year and were worse before with more serious issues. There are some in campus which are regularly tuned but I have to pay to access them and be a certain conservatory level to play the grands, which I don't have. Though can't say the piano I have at home (a 50+ year old Yamaha U3 upright, bought secondhand some 15 years ago) had been treated much better either. It was flooded in the late 2000s because we couldn't find a way to move it. It's also rarely tuned, the last time it was tuned it was so far off the tuner said he had to come back in half a year to tune it up to pitch. I have a picture of me playing a deteriorated 1891/1892 Steinway D, but some people would be able to tell the location from the background (or even the piano itself!) so I don't want to post it. |
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I don't play the piano, but my wife and daughter do. For our 10th wedding anniversary (10 years ago!), I bought my wife a Yamaha baby grand black piano... and, as shown above, I also have a Yamaha  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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