Tuesday morning

This beautiful young woman is Carmelita Nespitt, who is the secretary to Alfred Dean. She spent the whole day with me today through the noise of me breaking strings on the Steinway. She unfortunately will have to come back tomorrow for more noise and commotion in the office which she shares with Alfred – and me.

Just to prove that I AM working while I’m here (ahem, Bill), here is a picture of the piano in the disassembly stage. This is after all the strings, dampers, tuning pins have been removed. Today (Tuesday) I'll take the plate out and paint it.

I got most of it apart today in spite of no less than 25 people parading through the office and around the piano and my work benches. Not what I would consider an ideal working situation, but I managed it and actually got a lot of work done.