My Morning Jacket

Off-Topic => Off-Topic Ramblings => Topic started by: DD on Jul 07, 2006, 11:39 AM

Title: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: DD on Jul 07, 2006, 11:39 AM


so my buddies dad is a real estate agent.  he sold a house for a couple of guys who didnt want this anymore.  they said they would give it away if someone would just take it.  so i said "cool, ill take it".  the day i went over to check it out one of the guys was there and once i looked at it he said his movers were on the way to wait and see if they would deliver it for me.

not only did they deliver it for me, HE FREAKIN PAID THEM TOO.  so what i thought was going to cost me a couple hundo to get moved ended up being 100% free.  its a little out of tune but not TOO bad.  its close enough that im working up a couple of songs to record for Red Nails myspace account.

ill let yall know when i get it together.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/trans3000/Dans%20Pics/DSC03267.jpg)
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: SMc55 on Jul 07, 2006, 12:52 PM
Cool  8)
Nice things do happen don't they?
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: DD on Jul 07, 2006, 01:30 PM
yes that they do.


BTW, its a Lagonda piano made in New Castle, Indiana between 1921 and 1930.
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: fitzcarraldo on Jul 07, 2006, 02:08 PM
Nice!
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: corey on Jul 07, 2006, 02:28 PM
Sweet deal, DD. Free stuff rules.

I got my acoustic guitar for free. It's a "Shenandoah by Martin". The research that I did says that it's Martin parts, just assembled overseas. Japan, if I remember correctly.
There was a little old man that used to come in the cafe where my wife (fiance'  back then) worked. He asked if she played music and she told him that i did. He said, "I have some instruments that I'm looking to get rid of".

She said, "Cool. We'd like to take a look at them and see how much you want for them".

He said, "No. I'm just looking to get rid of them. My wife says that they're taking up too much room".

He brought it to her a few days later and wouldn't let us pay him for it.

He left a cheap little mandolin at the cafe for her a few days after that.
Pretty cool, huh?
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: Angry Ewok on Jul 07, 2006, 02:55 PM
Is that a stuffed cat on the piano? If so, that's an akward but classic pose.
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: DD on Jul 07, 2006, 03:24 PM
oh her fat ass is stuffed allright.  stuffed full of the "all you can eat" catfood smorgasboard.  thats candy darling aka spike who's a chunky little monkey in a cat suit.
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jul 07, 2006, 10:54 PM
dude, i needs me a free piano. i need something to start learning on. and some motivation. maybe i just need to take lessons and have it forced on me. like spanish. except i hated spanish. take two years of french and then two years later try to take spanish in college and you realize how much of your french you actually remember. which, for me, was quite a bit of it. so i'm taking French II this semester in hopes to get my arse royally kicked by the language.

what the hell? this was about pianos...
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: EC on Jul 08, 2006, 12:44 PM
tom, there might be some rooms at your university with pianos.  see if you could use them..
oh wait.  university is over for now.
you're free to use mine  :-/

(dd, be careful to always keep the key lid down.  with cats around, it can get preeeetty hairy in the cracks.)


heh
Title: Re: A FREE piano is the best kind of piano
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jul 09, 2006, 04:26 PM
oh, school has a shitload of piano rooms. there's pianos everywhere. it's pretty much a music school; there better be pianos everywhere. i think i'm gonna take lessons though, to get my ass kicked into learning it.