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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
That rosewood "Steinway 2" is a dead ringer for the rebuilt Steinway D at Faust Harrison right now. Can't tell if the pictured model is 7' or 9' though.
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Ok, who can tell me whose gravesite this is? Backtracking the picture is cheating! 
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A Krakauer: 
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Here's a piano that Zorba might like - but that's not why I'm putting it here. Look under the keyboard for the knob. This allows the performer to shift the action - not just a little like the soft pedal of a grand, but far enough to transpose keys! 
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Yep, I do like that one, although the cheek blocks seem narrow for a transposing piano. Now THIS is just plain weird:  And if a male Belly Dancer thinks its weird, it's WEIRD!!  But then, weird's a GOOD thing! 
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Serenading runners at the Big Sur Marathon: 
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OKAY! 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
I was going to guess Strauss or Wagner, thinking Hitler might have spent state money for such a monument. Then I cheated and was initially surprised until reflecting for a minute and realizing the actual resident probably had as much money at his disposal. (And contrary to popular opinion, at least one of his products is worthy of such a monument. I still have it at another house.)
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I think it's time to add a little color here: 
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Automatic mistake corrector: 
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Here's a great one - you'll have to go visit the site... http://www.ugoto.com/pictures/thepianodriver.html
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Nice upright piano for sale. Purchased new 5 years ago and was only used 3 years by our children before they lost interest. We'd like it to go to a loving home that will appreciate and use it. Played when stored, should only need tuning. $1,250/offer. 555-1212 
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Now THIS is what a grand SHOULD look like: 
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The one at Faust Harrison is finished with a bit more red in the rosewood. It has the best shade and grain pattern of any rosewood I've ever seen, though there's a Chickering in LA that very closely rivals it. To me, rosewood should be finished quite red, like bubinga, though one often sees it in the more drab browns. If I had $187K, I'd want it just to look at everyday. (But for that, I could do the Chickering and buy a nice summer home.) That Bechstein above is very nice. My other pet favorite for grain pattern is quite similar in circassian walnut, an old one-off Bauer that was for sale for $1.5 mil and sold for an undisclosed amount. Another that I'd have loved just to look at. I love nice wood with good contasting grain patterns and there's nothing more beautiful to show off that pattern than a piano. Who needs to collect statues if you could collect pianos? I have a CD with about 600 MB of various pianos including that Bauer. I suppose it's about time I dug it out and started contributing. I'll look for the CD tomorrow. Meantime, here's the nicely-red rosewood Chickering 8'2" that I covet in LA.   Here's a picture of detail of the Bauer I was able to retrieve from my e-mail to a friend who is my supplier of fine woods I never have the courage to cut after I get them. I sent it to him to see if he could scrounge me some pieces of this stuff: 
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