RF, in your last photo, am I missing something?

Latest progress on my Ampico:




Another view, showing the gorgeous keybed; alternating mahogany and poplar.

During January, Centennial Park will host a public piano as part of Sydney Festival’s Play Me, I’m Yours! The piano will be decorated by Park Rangers and community volunteers and will remain in the Park for three weeks to be played by anyone and everyone who would like to have a go.

Hey Brian, we're coming to NZ soon. Wanna meet?

One Man's Dream on a piano. Opera tenor, you're welcome to come and visit/stay...

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
During January, Centennial Park will host a public piano as part of Sydney Festival’s Play Me, I’m Yours! The piano will be decorated by Park Rangers and community volunteers and will remain in the Park for three weeks to be played by anyone and everyone who would like to have a go.

Big Fun!

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Originally posted by rustyfingers:
Hey Zorba! Welcome back. You been lurking?

Partly. I haven't had the time for any of my five major boards that I would like. Two piano boards, two Belly Dance boards, and a sewing machine collector's board.

Be careful what you ask for - you may get it! I wanted to be a "working dancer", and I now am. I've been taking 3 dance classes a week, then I was inducted into a trupe, so that added a rehearsal. Then one of my dance sisters, Lana, decided to teach this wings/veil choreography - I couldn't pass that up. So now its 4 classes a week. Then my wife and I formed a troupe - so that's now 2 rehearsals a week. Then I got talked into teaching a veil workshop (veil is one of my specialties, but I don't normally teach) - so I gotta prep for that. And now I'm the house dancer at a local restaurant, so I'm practicing, performing, scheduling guest dancers, and coming up with new routines for that. Now my wife tells me that one of her co-workers has a close friend who just opened a new Moroccan place who wants dancers - so there's a vague possibility I'll be sucked into that - hopefully not as a regular, I'm not sure I could handle being house dancer and/or scheduler for two restaurants.

Then I had to choreograph a skirt dance for the troupe, blah, blah, blah. There's costuming issues with the troupe I joined and choreographies to learn, more choreographies for the troupe we formed. Thank Goddess I'm an improv dancer for my solo work. I just had my hair hennaed - and had to plan exactly when that could happen with everything else that's going on...

So if you kept up with all that, I'm still playing and tinkering with my piano - in fact my tuner is coming in about 1-1/2 weeks. I'd really like to find a Melodigrand or other mini-piano (acoustic, of course) for our second home in Florida. And I usually get talked into at least one performance when I'm there...

Oh yea, have written 2 articles of a 3 part series for a Belly Dance magazine. At this rate, I'll have to schedule potty breaks weeks in advance...

Oh yea, have written 2 articles of a 3 part series for a Belly Dance magazine. At this rate, I'll have to schedule potty breaks weeks in advance...