As a music teacher, I cannot state too strongly how many defective pianos and violins are out there. Julie Campbell Julie's Music & Language Studio 1215 W. Worley Columbia, MO 65203 573-881-6889 http://www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:27 AM, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > In my experience there's usually an elephant in the room but only rarely a > grand piano. > > > There was a time when I dreamed of keeping elephants in my backyard. > Instead, we live not far from the zoo, and fill up our living room with > not one, but two pianos... neither of which I can play. Clearly they must > be defective. > > David Ritchie, > Portland, Oregon > >