tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081932369499513909.post1716562050831135578..comments2024-03-24T12:43:45.646-07:00Comments on Adventures at the Museum: Greer PianoDolly P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18442086241508114550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081932369499513909.post-86053882017224919992024-03-14T23:28:29.074-07:002024-03-14T23:28:29.074-07:00Years ago, when I was still the owner of a burglar...Years ago, when I was still the owner of a burglar and fire alarm company (Protective Engineering Services, Inc.) I was awarded the contract to install a "state of the art alarm system" in the museum that housed this piano and a fairly large number of other historical artifacts from the same donor's ranch. The pre-wiring was done according to blue-print specs and, without any of my crew to assist me, I finished out the installation of the control panel and a wide variety of highly sensitive infrared motion detectors. It took me nearly three days to complete the installation including a complete window breakage detection system. Of the many installations I did, this was definitely one of the most interesting.RickInArizonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04064688315076279041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081932369499513909.post-8401619133392298142018-01-17T15:41:56.168-08:002018-01-17T15:41:56.168-08:00Hello Don and THANK YOU for this wonderful additio...Hello Don and THANK YOU for this wonderful addition of historical information! I have looked all over the piano to try to find the manufacturer or any other identifying information, but to no avail. The piano has been "re-finished" so there is no name where it typically would be on a piano. Someone suggested I look on the sound board inside piano and either it has been replaced or painted, but there is no identifying information on it either.Dolly P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18442086241508114550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081932369499513909.post-91431407971411931772017-12-30T21:32:31.870-08:002017-12-30T21:32:31.870-08:00A thrilling story of a "royal" instrumen...A thrilling story of a "royal" instrument whose "life" was jeopardized, then rescued. It was my grandmother Hannah Kempe and grandfather Richard Greer who were married that happy day. Their marriage produced a family of intelligent, high minded, proud, kind, ambitious progeny. One, Pauline Kempe Greer, my mother, was a younger daughter who loved music, particularly classical music. She taught piano to younger children and had great ability to do so. She and her husband James Cyrus McCleve were great music lovers and we had a beautiful baby grand, "George Steck", a well rated piano, in our home in Holbrook, Arizona. I too loved classical music. It was found that I could memorize the sound of our piano' keys--so called "Perfecct Pitch" and demonstrated that ability at age 10 on the stage of Northern Arizona University's "Ardrey Memorial Auditorium" <br />for the Annual Northern Arizona Music Festival. My Holbrook Music teacher Roy Gibbons had me demonstrate that ability to Professor Ardrey in one of the practice rooms. Ardrey the had me demonstrate that ability on the stage of what is now called the Ardrey Memorial Auditorium at the final evening program of massed orchestras, bands, choruses Very thrilling to me. That school now has an inventory of pianos worth 2.5 million dollars! While they focus on Steinway pianos there is no doubt that should "The Greer Piano" ever be resurrected and retuned it could be a star performer or at least the thrilling museum treasure it has become. Might anyone be able to pass on name or country of piano Don McCleve, M.D. dmccleve@comcast.net<br /><br />Don McCleve, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10473989462146665257noreply@blogger.com