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BTW.....I think you're the only PW member who has his own baseball card.  ![[Linked Image]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pRHrkuCbL._SS500_.jpg)
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"We just never anticipated such a huge response to our "Cash For Clinkers" promotion"
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I sent mine in. I was a little bummed when i saw the ones they picked. It was like hmm, am i missing something? I guess there's no accounting for taste I agree. I think yours should have won. Runner-up should have been the one about the "last of the herd." The actual three final entries were all inferior to the ones folks posted here (IMO). Chris
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"They're just S's right now, but in a few weeks, when we take them out of the brooder, they'll be B's"
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My only domestic quality is that I live in a house.
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What's depressing is that Charles Cooke wrote "Playing the Piano for Pleasure" while he wrote for The New Yorker. Those were the days, I guess.
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An old favorite book of mine.....influenced me quite a bit. If anyone's interested ....I have a fond 'review' of it on the Amazon page.
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my effort. it's late, best i can do:
"find the corners first... now show me the front of the box again?"
Brodmann BU 125 upright
1880 Blüthner 7'2" grand
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Obviously the editors who picked the finalists aren't pianists. I don't even get the caption about the elephants. 
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Obviously the editors who picked the finalists aren't pianists. I don't even get the caption about the elephants. Ivories ... elephants ... get it? Ha ha.
Recovering cellist, amateur pianist. ![[Linked Image]](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:m8hBGJHyDFlGeM:http://www.asinari.it/cello.jpg) Check out my blog ! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/ABF_Medals/5medals.jpg)
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[Light bulb goes on] Oh! I get it now, thanks. It still ain't funny. 
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I got it. A variation of this is a cartoon pictuing a queasy looking elephant in a tux steated at the piano and thinking "these keys look vaguely familiar - - "
Slow down and do it right. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/forumpicts/MOYD12/MOYD_789012.gif)
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Ivories ... elephants ... get it? Ha ha.
Aha!!!!!!  (I didn't get it either.) P.S. Please pardon this brief "OT".....I was looking for a place to tell you this. The other day I found the page with all the Chopin "e-cital" recordings and listened to a couple of yours. I enjoyed and appreciated them greatly -- you play beautifully! And I must say I got an extra smile over the fact that you played the "Cello" etude ( of course, who else to do it).
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[Light bulb goes on] Oh! I get it now, thanks. It still ain't funny. +1
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Ivories ... elephants ... get it? Ha ha.
Aha!!!!!! (I didn't get it either.) P.S. Please pardon this brief "OT".....I was looking for a place to tell you this. The other day I found the page with all the Chopin "e-cital" recordings and listened to a couple of yours. I enjoyed and appreciated them greatly -- you play beautifully! And I must say I got an extra smile over the fact that you played the "Cello" etude ( of course, who else to do it). Thank you! You know, I didn't know it was called the "cello" etude until after I started working on it. I chose it because I thought I had a reasonable chance of learning it within the time frame for the recital. If you want to comment on the recital, I'm sure if you do so on the thread devoted to it that's pinned at the top of the forum people will appreciate it.
Recovering cellist, amateur pianist. Check out my blog !
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I will -- and in fact I'm planning to do a post thanking all the players (especially the ones whose names I recognized) for their contributions.
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