On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:28:27 -0500, Tilman Skowroneck wrote:
> There was a
> Streicher downstriker fepo there with a cut-off tail as well. More of 
> this at

right. this one belonged to Gerald Woehl. He had, for a paltry sum, 
conned it off a a very old, almost dead, retired primary school teacher 
from the rural area around Marburg. The usual routine: ruined beyound 
repair, bla bla bla.
Dick Burnett played a perfectly delightful recital on it in the 
Liederhalle, mostly Czerny and Hummel as Tilman has written. Dick his 
imitable self complete with two different socks at the recital. The 
pantomime was hilarious, a sort of acted out Wilhelm Busch and 
typically Dick as well:
http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.busch.bb_465-virtuos.html



 a propos Wilhem Busch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Busch
and in particualr this well done set of pages in german
http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/index.html
http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/uebersicht.html
which also show some of Busch's paintings:
http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/werke/gemaelde.html