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Offline pianistimo

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PSO's
on: October 01, 2006, 09:29:53 AM
piano shaped objects   - according to stanwood technicians, this would include any piano that has discrepancies in the action.  namely uneven action from key to key.

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Re: PSO's
Reply #1 on: October 01, 2006, 10:15:32 AM
I would like to nominate this for interesting thread of the year.

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Re: PSO's
Reply #2 on: October 01, 2006, 11:06:03 AM
seconded
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Re: PSO's
Reply #3 on: October 01, 2006, 12:34:57 PM
I've never heard of a PSO before, but I have serveral VSO's.  I bought the VSO's to work on them and try to make them sound like real violins.  I've actually made some progress in that area but I'm sure that a professional violinist would still view them as just VSO's.

All of my current pianos are PSO's.  They are all old dilapidated uprights that were given away free.  They are all from about the 1920's although I do have one spinet that is from the 1950's.  I've been working on these PSO's as well.  I take the action of them and clean it up and regulate it and reshape the hammers.  I also remove all the old bubble gum and stuff from under the wooden keys. Then I tune them up using a Korg tuning meter.  They've come a long way baby!  But they are still just PSO's.  But then that's ok because I'm just an MSO (Musician-Shaped Object) ;D

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Re: PSO's
Reply #4 on: October 01, 2006, 01:19:49 PM
i could tune you up with one of those korg meters and some bubble gum.  but, i'm afraid i have to mind my p's and q's.

* i don't believe it.  thal actually said something nice.  so did nicco.  i thought they were conspiring.

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Re: PSO's
Reply #5 on: October 01, 2006, 04:37:15 PM
PSO = Pianistimo Spam Object
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Re: PSO's
Reply #6 on: October 01, 2006, 05:29:13 PM
what about the concert?  i never get to go anywhere.  i just might tell mr. dorian griner that i have forgotten about you completely.  the problem is that you just keep popping up everywhere and i can't forget you.  he, on the other hand, sends one simple polite message acknowledging me.  oh.  my heart fluttered.  then, i read spam by you - and i feel the angst - betwixt a 'good boy and a bad boy.'  who do you think chooses good boys?  girls that want to live a long time?  perhaps i have a death wish.

ah.  but, i am married and dorian is too young anyways.  well, considering - youare too young as well.  38 is still a baby.  i would be robbing the cradle.  you mustn't give up on paris.  she is posting again.  (that is since you took off the message about marrying her).  she did not want to break the bad news that she has a boyfriend.

besides, you need someone who is not a cripple like yourself.  someone to take care of you.  perhaps just as well as your mother.  someone who knows how to fix your favorite food.  btw, i made a rapturous meat loaf last night out of a bit of rye bread and meat/onions/green pepper/ and barbeque sauce.  even my husband, who had already eaten out (not knowing that i would cook in my condition), ate it when he got home. 

ps my leg is better today.  i can walk again.  it wasn't catasrophic.

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Re: PSO's
Reply #7 on: October 01, 2006, 07:35:57 PM
Taken the pills i guess.
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Re: PSO's
Reply #8 on: October 01, 2006, 07:45:29 PM
i think pianistimo is gonna have 6000 posts by the end of next week. she spams almost as much as da comme.
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Re: PSO's
Reply #9 on: October 01, 2006, 08:02:30 PM
Perhaps we should open a book on how many posts she will have by the end of the year.

10,000 i would guess.

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Reply #10 on: October 01, 2006, 08:04:40 PM
Perhaps we should open a book on how many posts she will have by the end of the year.

10,000 i would guess.

Thal
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Re: PSO's
Reply #11 on: October 01, 2006, 08:09:40 PM
alistair is a true gentleman.  goodbye to all of you except alistair.  i always liked that name.  excepting the name 'ernest.'

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Reply #12 on: October 01, 2006, 08:31:50 PM
alistair is a true gentleman.  goodbye to all of you except alistair.  i always liked that name.  excepting the name 'ernest.'

Thats my middle name.
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Re: PSO's
Reply #13 on: October 01, 2006, 09:42:47 PM
oh dear.  it would have to be.
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