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By Karl Petersen
[ Please welcome new member Karl Petersen. My thanks to Robbie
[ for introducing Karl to us, and to Karl for subscribing and sending
[ his bio on the same day.
[ Jody
Hello Jody. Robbie Rhodes filled me in on your great work as communication facilitator in addition to several other worlds of activity. I appreciate your having the interest to be the majordomo for this work. Anticipating your including me in your forum, here is my capsule bio:
Karl A. Petersen. I have a 1936 Chickering Model 352 Ampico B in Meridian, Idaho. I previously has had Duo-Art, and Schultz Recordo grands in So.Cal. In college, I serviced tracker organs, studied keyboard instrument and organ design literature (mostly Audsley), restored a steeple clock and bells and built a 5 octave 4'+8' harpsichord (bits from Wally Zuckerman). Current avocations include maintaining a push-rod Jaguar saloon and digging up old relatives, genealogically speaking. I have a pretty fair reproducing piano literature library having collected and been in Amica through 1976, but have lost track of the activity since moving to Idaho.
My Ampico collection is cataloged on Nutshell and available, while the Duo-Art collection is in the care of Robbie Rhodes awaiting transcription into Ampico B if we live long enough. I am most interested in obtaining transcriptions and new recordings for the B, and would hope to be able to contribute something practical to that effort. The ultimate wish list item is a signature analysis transcriber to give a note/intensity record output from audio piano recordings that could be edited into Ampico B probably via MIDI for the widest practical audience.
I have degrees in architecture from Rensselaer, worked in avionics, human factors analysis and commercial product development for Lockheed divisions, developed steam cars through 1975 during the smog crisis, and have been in small electronic product development/packaging in Idaho. Publishing automotive journals and quarterlies as a home business seems to have blissfully become a thing of the past (fun but time consuming). Occasional trips to the SFO area and Illinois have been the norm, and I rarely get to writing letters, so email is a plus. |
(Message sent Mon 9 Oct 1995, 19:27:06 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.) |
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