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Hi friends out west...I hope all is well as possible with you and yours these wild days.

As you may know, my mom Gloria passed on December 12, 2022, and my sister and I are in the process of going through her little ranch house in Mar Vista/Marina del Rey to prepare for its sale in the coming weeks. End of an era to be sure (but not the end of me coming to California).

In the late 1950's mom bought a Baldwin/Acrosonic spinet piano (pictured above) for $800 (a ton of money back then, and nothing to shake a stick at now). Of all the things in mom's house, this is the one I'd like to keep - or at least find a home for, for the time being til I can figure out where and how to get it.

So I'm putting this out there: Do any of you have room for this where you live, have someone who'd like to play a very inviting instrument (that needs a slight tuning) that doesn't take up a lot of space? It could be a long-term loan or even end up as a gift in the right hands.

I was watching Liberace on TV back in the late 1950's and he was very flamboyant. He often did what's called a glissando, where he'd sweep his hands across much of the keyboard (either up or down), and the sound of all these notes piled on top of one another was thrilling to me.

So I took a penny and tried to do what he did on the new piano...and put a long scratch on 30 of those 88 keys that remains to this day. Mom never punished me for this, and years later she told me why. She was just happy I went to the piano to play it. That's what she'd hoped for when she bought it.

If not for that scratch, maybe I'd be less attached to the thing.

So that's my story for today. I'll be out there on Saturday through Wednesday if you wanna try it.

Thanks for any ideas!

david
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