Dr. D's Christmas present from me gets delivered tomorrow! Finally!

[DemoTex]

She deserves it. She works harder than anyone I have ever known (80 hour weeks are not uncommon). She has been to Mexico, Poland, and India since Thanksgiving. She is going to Russia in a couple of weeks, then back to India. Nothing relaxes her like playing the piano. She will play while I cook (on those few nights a month that she is in town).

[NV Whino]

1. Cool!

Can we listen in?

[DemoTex]

2. The Whinoes

Ironically, my adviser in this endeavor (buying Dr. D's piano) is a great jazz pianist for whom I played string bass in a jazz trio in the 60's. We were known as The Whinoes and/or The LSO (London, Symphony, Orchestra .. Larry London, Sid Symphony, and Oliver Orchestra). Our Whino ditty was thus:

We are The Whinoes,
The Whinoes are we.
We never accept re-spon-si-bil-ity.
We have a band,
It's the best in the land!
We think that you'll agree!

We also played in a 17-piece swing band called the Auburn Knights. The Auburn Knights celebrated their 75th anniversary at the annual reunion in Auburn, Alabama last year (2005).

Mac


Practice 1966. Front man Dale Quillen (played trombone with the Si Zentner band) rehearses the tenor sax section.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Wow!!!

What a sweetheart you are, to get this for her!

[DemoTex]

4. Actually, I owed it to her from her 50th b-day in 2000.

But we knew we were adios-ing Texas, so I put it off until this year. Dr. D is extremely happy with her new toy. She saw it at the dealer's showroom on 12/23. The dealer is a good friend of my old jazz pianist buddy. He helped secure a fantastic deal on this new Yamaha piano. I will have to insure it for over twice what I paid for it.