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Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Sweet. Congratulations.

Even a totally aural tuner like me understands that putting these 5 D's in tune with each other is a perfect job for an ETD.

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Susan Kline
Philomath, Oregon
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message------

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message------

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Life presents the most amazing gifts to the most deserving people :)

I guess I'd call that an Awesome Day in the field of Piano Technology!!

Thinking it will be worth every bit of stress - :)

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Melanie Brooks
Brooks, Ltd. Piano Products LLC
Uncasville CT
860-848-6605
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Congratulations.

So what's on the program? It would be nice to have an URL for the event or website where we can find such information.

All I could find on the Brown Website is this. 

Tallahassee, FL

The5browns		remove preview
Tallahassee, FL View this on The5browns >

Did I fail to navigate to the right page?
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Benjamin Sloane
Cincinnati OH
513-257-8480
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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    Awesome ...... the Five Browns performed here a few years back on 5 Steinway D's with lids removed.  Do the best you can but don't worry about making each piano perfect because they are mostly played together with lots of force. You may want to practice some string tying and definitely check the lyres . It should be quite a concert......

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James Kelly
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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I think WFSU is live streaming  the concert tomorrow at 8 pm at https://wfsu.org/5browns

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-31-2017 10:17
From: James Kelly
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens



    Awesome ...... the Five Browns performed here a few years back on 5 Steinway D's with lids removed.  Do the best you can but don't worry about making each piano perfect because they are mostly played together with lots of force. You may want to practice some string tying and definitely check the lyres . It should be quite a concert......

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James Kelly
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message------

I think WFSU is live streaming  the concert tomorrow at 8 pm at https://wfsu.org/5browns

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Because Mr. Sloane asked.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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FYI, I discovered the Steinway Website is promoting the event with a program that helps them do so.

An Evening with The 5 Browns: Watch Live! - Steinway & Sons

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An Evening with The 5 Browns: Watch Live! - Steinway & Sons Don't miss a special opportunity to tune in to a free, live performance of The 5 Browns at Florida Statue University's Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. View this on Steinway >

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Benjamin Sloane
Cincinnati OH
513-257-8480
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-31-2017 16:36
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Because Mr. Sloan asked.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2017 23:33
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Sometimes cool stuff happens

Sometimes life just dares you to remain unimpressed. Local Tallahassee businessman DeVoe Moore owns four art case model D Steinways and displays them at The Antique Car Museum.  Steinway and Sons moved the 500000 Steinway to the museum to be displayed along side them. Recently Mr. Moore arraigned to have The 5 Browns give a performance at FSU's Ruby Diamond Auditorium.  Steinway offered me the opportunity to prep the pianos for this concert. Last September I worked on the pianos and with the Browns but on the day of the concert Tallahassee got hit by Hurricane  Hermine and the performance was postponed. The concert is back on for this Thursday and I'm back in Tallahassee again. The pianos are the Alma Tadema replica, the first Whitehouse piano replica, the Chihuly piano, the UN "Peace" piano and Steinway number 500000. I get to work in a lot of neat places on a lot of  really nice pianos but I can't even pretend that this gig doesn't leave me starstruck. I want to thank James R. Sims RPT who sold most of these instruments to and maintains them for Mr. Moore for letting me work on them and (Oh yeah) teaching me how to tune 35 years ago right here in Tallahassee. I also want to thank Mr. Moore for setting up this concert and letting me spend some time with his pianos. Now I just hope I can get 1215 strings in unison and convince 1215 tuning pins to stay where I put them long enough for the concert to get finished and for me to skip town before anyone notices.

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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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