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There are times when researching a subject is a bloody pain.

It can be boring, tedious and frustrating, not necessarily in that order.

Then there are such things as wondering what the saloon piano would sound like.

We write about saloons, we post in the Saloon, it was part of our heritage.

I was listening to Dave Bourne, Piano Player, on You Tube 
Wearin' of the Green, Saloon Piano Version

I listened to this, and a number of other delightful tunes, but kept coming back to the Wearin' of the Green, and my imagination fleshed it out into another of the Short Stories.

I reckon I'll bookmark that site.

I'm liking these saloon piano tunes!

(In the Short Story it mentions reference to an ornery lad in one of Old Iron Mustache's Journals who thumbtacked the felt hammers on a church piano ... my first wife did that when she was a child, that's where the idea came from, and she delights I've written it into my stories in multiple places now!)

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I used to have a cassette of Irish ballads. Roddy McCorley. Black and Tans. And Wearin' of the Green.

 

I'm driving down the road one day with it in the tape deck, and number two child (probably around 12 or 13) piped up in a very shocked sounding voice.

 

"Did he just say they were hanging people for wearing green?"

 

Yep, that's what he said.

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Thumbtacks on the hammers is supposed to mimic the “tinny sound” of an out of tune piano. All one has to do is to NOT get the piano tuned! They’re were very few if any piano tuners out west and some of the piano players had a tuning hammer to at least touch up the terribly out of tune notes. These tinny sounding pianos actually hurt my ears! Terrible sounding piano! I couldn’t get through 10 seconds of that!

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BTW tacks on the hammers are VERY bad for the strings!! Just thought I'd let ya'll know about that. It'll wear them out quicker and they could break easier if played FORTE!;)

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Pard, I have a bachelors degree in history, I'm a hobby genealogist, and I'm working on a masters in history.  So I pretty much spend all my time researching :)   If I'm posting here it's usually because I'm taking a break from research.

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And once again I benefit from one who is younger, smarter and better looking than me!
Rye, many thanks!
Information is where you find it, and that's information I didn't have!

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26 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

And once again I benefit from one who is younger, smarter and better looking than me!
Rye, many thanks!
Information is where you find it, and that's information I didn't have!

You're too kind. I am a piano tuner so I kinda know this stuff! :P

 

I don't know about the younger, smarter and better looking part! Well, maybe better looking!!!:lol:

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No maybes about it, my friend, you're the handsomer of the two!

I listen with both eyes when you discuss the ivory 88, for yours is the voice of experience!

As far as my own pitiful visage, I am minded of the verse from a textbook from good old Corning Elementary School in the 1960s (which means the text was from the early 1950s or earlier):
"As a beauty, I'm surely no star,

"There are others more handsome by far!

"But my face, I don't mind it,

"Because I'm behind it,

"It's the folks out in front that I jar!"

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28 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

No maybes about it, my friend, you're the handsomer of the two!

I listen with both eyes when you discuss the ivory 88, for yours is the voice of experience!

As far as my own pitiful visage, I am minded of the verse from a textbook from good old Corning Elementary School in the 1960s (which means the text was from the early 1950s or earlier):
"As a beauty, I'm surely no star,

"There are others more handsome by far!

"But my face, I don't mind it,

"Because I'm behind it,

"It's the folks out in front that I jar!"

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:D

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6 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder:D

There, fixed it for ya. :P

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43 minutes ago, Sixgun Seamus said:

There, fixed it for ya. :P

"Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time" ???:lol:

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