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  • 1.  Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-18-2024 12:55
    In retiring the business operations of my office, I came up with this slip of paper with lyrics to a PTG "anthem". I'm guessing it's from the Hollywood FLA national convention. (Back in the day - me, in my mid-20s, I attended also ones in NYC, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati: '74, '76 and '78 respectively.) 

    Does anyone else remember singing this at a Guild convention? Were the lyrics set to an existing melody, or one composed by a member?



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    William Ballard RPT
    WBPS
    Saxtons River VT
    802-869-3161

    "Our lives contain a thousand springs
    and dies if one be gone
    Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
    should keep in tune so long."
    ...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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  • 2.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-18-2024 16:35
    I may have that in one of Larry Crabb's boxes

     

     

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  • 3.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-18-2024 18:25

    I hope and pray it wasn't 'This Land is Your Land', though it might fit by the end of the night given a shoe horn and enough lubrication.



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    Steven Rosenthal RPT
    Honolulu HI
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  • 4.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-21-2024 18:50

    Steven Rosenthal went:

    I hope and pray it wasn't 'This Land is Your Land', though it might fit by the end of the night given a shoe horn and enough lubrication.

    "…with a nick-nack paddy-whack, give the dog a bone. This old man came rolling home."

    The barlines don't fall where the words make you think they might, but it works. And the tune is probably in the Public Domain now, so we get to dodge the royalty fees.



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    William Ballard RPT
    WBPS
    Saxtons River VT
    802-869-3161

    "Our lives contain a thousand springs
    and dies if one be gone
    Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
    should keep in tune so long."
    ...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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  • 5.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-20-2024 17:14

    I think Wim Blees goes back that far, although I don't think this is barbershop style.



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    William Ballard RPT
    WBPS
    Saxtons River VT
    802-869-3161

    "Our lives contain a thousand springs
    and dies if one be gone
    Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
    should keep in tune so long."
    ...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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  • 6.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-20-2024 18:12
    I didn't go to the Hollywood convention and didn't start singing with Larry until 1982 or 83. 
    The song doesn't ring a bell with me. 

    Wim



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  • 7.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-20-2024 18:20

    Based on my *very* vague recollections of ancient copies of the Journal, likely candidates for authorship are Sid Stone and Allan Pollard.  



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    Patrick Draine RPT
    Billerica MA
    (978) 663-9690
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  • 8.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-21-2024 10:07

    Bill,

    You might want to have that carbon dated. Just sayin'... 🤔  😉! 

    Peter Grey Piano Doctor 



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    Peter Grey
    Stratham NH
    (603) 686-2395
    pianodoctor57@gmail.com
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  • 9.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-22-2024 04:33

    It won't work, Peter.  Even carbon dating doesn't go back that far.  



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    William Truitt RPT
    Bridgewater NH
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  • 10.  RE: Calling All Geezers

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-23-2024 11:20

    Lol!



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    Peter Grey
    Stratham NH
    (603) 686-2395
    pianodoctor57@gmail.com
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