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511209	2007-01-04 02:45:00	it's hard to find a group that one can show off ones knowledge. But by lunchtime on the first day you would have taught them everything you know. What would you do for the rest of the year I wonder...	the godfather (11663)
511210	2007-01-04 03:01:00	But by lunchtime on the first day you would have taught them everything you know. What would you do for the rest of the year I wonder... Wonder no more,at that age they don't know that one will go the rest of the year on a wing and a prayer.	Cicero (40)
511211	2007-01-04 03:02:00	(snip)then there was Winifred Atwell,you wouldn't remember her. Seeing you come from Swannanoa Cicero, you MAY be interested to know that Winifred Atwell came to Rangiora when I was a lad, and gave a free concert for the huddled masses of North Canterbury. She played her piano on the back of a truck in the middle of High Street so everyone could see her (not in the theatre). I think she was sponsored by ?Norm Gibson? who ran a shop on High Street at the time. The crowd seemed huge to me, and it started to sway, nearly getting out of control. I thought we were all going to fall over in a mass, and young kids like me would end up being crushed or suffocated - I have never forgotten the fear of that occasion, as well as Winnie's smile and music of course. And how exotic it was to have a real live black person in white Rangiora...	John H (8)
511212	2007-01-04 03:46:00	Seeing you come from Swannanoa Cicero, you MAY be interested to know that Winifred Atwell came to Rangiora when I was a lad, and gave a free concert for the huddled masses of North Canterbury . She played her piano on the back of a truck in the middle of High Street so everyone could see her (not in the theatre) . I think she was sponsored by ?Norm Gibson? who ran a shop on High Street at the time . The crowd seemed huge to me, and it started to sway, nearly getting out of control . I thought we were all going to fall over in a mass, and young kids like me would end up being crushed or suffocated - I have never forgotten the fear of that occasion, as well as Winnie's smile and music of course . And how exotic it was to have a real live black person in white Rangiora . . . One hopes your active imagination is now well under control .	Cicero (40)
511213	2007-01-04 05:07:00	One hopes your active imagination is now well under control. Never achieved that actually, and I hope I never will... But it wasn't imagination about the crowd; it really did almost collectively "lose its feet" and was in danger of collapsing. :(	John H (8)
511214	2007-01-04 06:00:00	Never achieved that actually, and I hope I never will... But it wasn't imagination about the crowd; it really did almost collectively "lose its feet" and was in danger of collapsing. :( The operative word here is almost,would seem your hope for an over active imagination has been granted.	Cicero (40)
511215	2007-01-04 06:18:00	The operative word here is almost,would seem your hope for an over active imagination has been granted. Oh well, I guess you were there at the time, so you apparently know best Cicero.	John H (8)
511216	2007-01-04 06:49:00	It is a little known fact that you can get the "honky tonk" piano sound by putting newspaper behind the piano strings. Otherwise, old upright pianos that have been used in pubs, and have had the lid left open to get more sound, and into which generations of full beer glasses have fallen, also produce that characteristic sound.	Terry Porritt (14)
511217	2007-01-04 06:51:00	Well, I wasn't there. Did she have her "other piano" or was it a different one?	R2x1 (4628)
511218	2007-01-04 19:31:00	Oh well, I guess you were there at the time, so you apparently know best Cicero. Crying in ones soup is not permitted here!	Cicero (40)
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