the people you meet... Once, during a coffee shop visit in Hollywood, I and two friends were discussing music, when an older gent dressed in 1940's tweed complete with cap, paused at our table. We'd been talking about transposing between various instruments and fiddle, and the man said "Transposing is so much easier when you can just flip a lever, isn't it?" We all chuckled, and I said "well yes, but not everyone has that capability." The man chuckled and said "ah, but I do, you see, I have Berlin's spinet." My jaw fell open and I sat up straight. 'You have Irving Berlin's spinet? How did you wind up with that?" He said "someone had to have it, and I happened to be the one." Tipped his hat and strolled away, leaving me gasping, and my friends completely stunned. None of the staff knew who he was. Irving Berlin hated to transpose, so he had a special piano made with a levered bar in front, so he could change the key without changing the fingering. Great story, cool memory, but not anything as cool as this story:
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