I personally know the man who trucked Rudolph Serkin's piano all over this
continent.  He had the distinction of breaking his leg while moving it in
the White House (the president of the United States residence) and, I
believe, was treated at the scene by the White House physician.  So, yes,
they do travel with their own instruments.  Ruth

PS:  I don't know if the keys were ivory or plastic.



At 11:04 PM -0400 9/10/03, [log in to unmask] wrote:
In a message dated 9/10/2003 9:59:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:


Re. personal instruments, are you suggesting that it is somehow odd to own
one's own instrument? Owning one's own instrument and even schlepping it to
concerts in foreign countries doesn't necessarily strike me as
unreasonable, in my capacity as a retired (and very bad) trombonist.  In
the case of a grand piano, however, it seems a little excessive.  It's not
my impression that the even the really bigshot concert pianists haul their
axes around with them.  But of course I could (theoretically) be wrong.
--
Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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