All who do, I will make up a nice CR photo album and email it to everyone who contributes (and PMs me an email address)

Plays, I'll grab my old one.

ooh ooh ooh ... I want to!

Here's my favorite recent one, posted a couple weeks ago in another thread:



And if there's any confusion, I'm the geeky lookin' guy in the white T shirt and glasses in the middle of that mob...

I'll try to find a larger (higher res) version of this:




Dwain:

Cool pic!

I wonder if gryphon still has my pics. It'll take too long to mail them again. hmmm....

All the good ones of me are old. I'll see if I can get a good new one sometime soon.

Show us Your Picture Redux
*
*

Not all still there, but many

I posted this a while back:



From left to right: my mom, myself, my sister, my nephew, my brother and his girlfriend. And
Harley's in front of me.

When this you see
remember me --
the one who plays
those 88 keys

I can't find a recent one. Here's an old one of me. Just picture me older with wrinkles and not such HUGE glasses!

Here you go, one for the road. Taken a little under a year ago.

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Elena, you are simply gorgeous!

Nah, it's the Italian light (it was taken in Verona). I also choose my public pictures veeeery carefully...

Thank you for the compliment, though!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Wow ... what fantastic pics of everyone.

Good thread Plays ... One for the road, so to speak.

Isn't she just!

The truth is that is a sequence of three lovely women!

(Easy to be candid when this place is about to disappear. )

I hate to break the sequence MM, but here's mine:



(Thank goodness THIS will be tossed into the casket tomorrow)

I'll second that. Haven't seen a bad shot yet, but that ones spectacular.

And Katie, it's sad that shot's going "in the casket" tomorrow. It's perfect.

I'd have to agree whole heartedly with Magellan, though I hope KB, Ed, Eusebius, and Dwain don't feel slighted.

...Apples and Oranges, you know ... :p


Plus I think avatar infringement suit jodi filed against Fizzy's optomitrist was settled out of court.

[edit for the katie cross post}:

ah but Katie, that elegantly knowing sultriness speaks to thoughts yet undreamed


Bob

Wow, katie - that is a fabulous picture. You too, Elena.

Jodi

Wow! Katie... How beautiful. The only pic I've ever seen of you was the one holding up the quilt. It simply doesn't do you justice. I hope you post this one in the new forums but I understand your hesitation if it's a safety issue. I feel the same way. Gosh, thanks for letting us see this one. As CG says "it's perfect."

Bob,

I also agree with Magellan. I don't feel slighted in the least.

Well I'll certainly remember this one Bob ...

Thank you Chick, Jodi and Peggy ... I might post it.

Bob's comment made me realize why it's so perfect. I've never seen a photograph that so perfectly captured "That Mona Lisa Smile" as that picture of you does--the knowing smile in the eyes and lips that have kept so many wondering for hundreds of years.

Really Chick ? I had to look at it again. Why, thank you so much ...

Break the sequence, katie? Who are you kidding?

Does anyone else besides myself notice any positive correlation between the women who choose to post their pictures on PW and their exceptional attractiveness?

I'm waiting now for justme to post another of hers. ... followed by another one from plays .. and then another one from ...

Why men love women!

CG, I thought that Mona Lisa question was answered some years ago when they found that "Mona Memo" that, roughly translated, mentioned something about "seeing beHIND the quilt"


Oh just shut up,
Bob
^^^combination signature and noun of direct unaddressed. :rolleyes:


Oh, and katie, I agree with CG on this one, but would caution about the "hundreds of years" thing .... my advice is "strike while the iron can still GET hot!"

Yep. I was being totally serious. As a former professional photographer and painter whose favorite specialty in both media (good thing 89th has been eaten by the lions in The Collosseum) was women, I meant that. There is that same inscruteable smile in that photograph. The photographer and the subject created an instant classic.

Agree with all of the above.

Now how about some more pictures!

Yes, great pics!

katie, that is a wonderful picture.

Now such is apple ... a most beautiful woman!

You best post this pic with a big HI[/b] in the next coffee room !!! .

She already DID, katie. (cept it says "hi" )


(she must have one of them fancy track-ball mouses. I can't draw a straight line with mine, to save my ... well, if I HAD one, I couldn't save it. ) Guess, I'll have to go "crooked to Hell"

Good picture, apple.
Is that at YOUR house? I'm thinking not.

Bob

I'm thinking the family home of her mother from the description she gave of it some time back, judging from the porch and neighbor's home in the background.

Yup Bob ... nailed again ... & with the cap off the bottle ... again ...
My apologies apple* ... I'm glad the pic made it to a new site.

Hey Apple, there's a guy named C.V. Alkan over in THIS thread

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/2/7879.html

who is trying to search for your neat "hand warmer" trick you mentioned several months ago. Several folks mentioned that you HAD a good idea, but nobody could find the actual thread.

I posted what I THOUGHT you had suggested at that time, but I thought you might go over and straighten out what I may have been mistaken about.

thanks,
Bob

Sure beats Jodi's hand warmer trick that involves the backside of a cow. :p

C-YA around....

Apple, that is such a wonderful photo. I don't know whether you have been the heart or soul (or spleen) of this place but you have been vital.

I guess it's been kind of hard for you to warm up to me for some reason, but I do want you to know how central i think you are to what made this place unique...but then you hear that from all the boys....

jf

Plus, Plus, and PLUS, Mr. Grand, unless one is nailing one of them "left hand only" etudes, there is the nagging need for that SECOND critter!


Perhaps a better word than "nailing" could have been found ... it has such an "unprofessional" feel (? ... yet another vocabularic conundrum ) to it, at least in the veterinarian context.

There's probably a "little know codicil" making it unethical to even use the word at Vet-Conventions.

Perhaps jodi could fill us in?

gotta go
Bob

Steve, great pic. You two look so vibrant and happly.

I never did do my building pics, but I've been collecting them and *will* share them with you for comment in one forum or another.

AHAHAHAHA!

*snort snort snort*

A trio of good looking American dudes ...
Steve, Gryphon and Jack ...
They all look quite relaxed ...

Thanks for posting these

Is this your wife Steve? ... she's quite beautiful

Thanks for all the pictures, everyone. They are all wonderful! All that PMed me will receive them as soon as I can compile a nice album. I also have some saved from Gryphon's thread that I will include.

thank you sweet jack

Yes she is - married 29 years this August. Her mother is still sure it won't last...

Let's see if this works ...


It did! It did! This is at Big Bear. Ain't Southern California great??? I live 3 miles from the ocean, but in 21/2 hours, I can be here!
penny

These are all some of the best pics of members I have seen! They are all so lovely!! Such a great goodbye gift, Plays.

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

This is a very good thread. I really enjoy seeing all the pictures.

Here is me, trying to look..... hmmm, I don't know.

[img]http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/bdcc9b6a/1352/__sr_/80dc.jpg?ph6c3ZCBeW1KUMtH[/img]

Plays - I would love a copy please please include me -
ok enough whining, :p if I have to I'll post a pic or two






Cathy

something seems familiar...... It was so much fun meeting you Cathy... I thought it was soooo cool that you just up and came. and for so little time. we'll be in touch somewhere.

Thought you might recognize that bottom one Apple it was a wonderful time and maybe we'll get another chance to see you this summer?

Cathy

Here are 4 generations of my family (sorry, not a great pic, but all I could locate at work). On the right is my grandfather, who passed away last year. On the left is my father and I am in the middle. That is my oldest daughter squirming around. She is now 5...

this IS a very nice thread!

Good looking family, ny1911! I do remember your suffering a loss in your family. Was that loss your grandfather as mentioned here?

Great Pic NY,

For some reason because of your avatar I assumed you were Hispanic or black.

Nice to see what you really look like.

Beautiful kid, too.

I can't see taiwan_girl, but Ed said "Wow!".

Beautiful kid, ny!!

apple,

do you think (rolling back my years) ny1911 could pass for my brother or at least my cousin?

Me:



I don't know why the bike looks so small, I'm not that large - must be the camera angle or something

Penny, cathys & ny1911,
Thanks for posting your pictures.
I don't think I've ever seen one of you cathys - really great snaps!! ...
ny1911 looks like a proud daddy! I bet you you're a good dad too.
And Penny always looks happy!

If there is one thing I'd like to see archived ... It's the pics of all the CR people. Pictures really do mean alot.

AT LAST !!

A FINAL FANTASY FULFILLED ....

THANK YOU PHYKELL !! [/b]

(Point-*Pant*-Click-*Pant*-Drag-*Pant*-Save-*Pant*)

I'd like to think so

New York last year:



LAST POST

Thanks MM...probably was my grandfather, who lived to 85. My grandmother passed away earlier this year, also at 85.

apple,

You're a brat!!

Hey JF, did Kathy take that pic of you in page 1? It is a beautiful picture!

Phykell, that pic reminds me of The Terminator!! Your expression is perfect! I have to make sure not to curse at motorcyclists now as one of them may turn out to be you!!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Brendan,
Thanks for posting this ...
This is a terrific picture ... You're so talented

Elena, I wish I could say it twas I who did. It was my son who happens to be in art school. No coincidence, huh?

Will someone please tell me how to upload a picture onto PW. I can't get into my web space (my FTP settings have been wiped out and I can't remember them - ARGG!).

Go here :

http://www.pianoworld.com/Uploads/fileuploader2.html

Here you can upload the picture. All the pictures I uploaded lately never showed up in the list though. But the link should be sent to your email-address.

Thanks, much, Michiel. I just managed to get back into my own space.

That's a wonderful picture of you!

Gee Kath, I always pictured you in sepia.

Lovely photo Kathy.

All I got right now is a tiny pic ... taken when my uncle was giving me a (nice) haircut

A little brighter!

Hey, who took that picture? You got some company?

jf

Jack,

Who said I never visited Maine?

Must be Tom. He turned on the lights. :p

:D It's me on hearing the news the CR was being shut down

Apparently, I don't know how to smile on photographs but in reality, I was just about to sell that bike, and I wasn't happy about it

I'll never tell. This thread is great. Thanks for starting it Plays.
Phykell you look so tough, but we all know by now what a pussy cat you are. NY, you look exactly like I imagined you would. Cathy, I love the contrast in personality depicted in your two photos. Tawain Girl - I don't see a pic; where'd it go?

Playing Vladimir Horowitz's piano when it was at Jordan Kitts in Richmond. I look pinched, but actually I was so overwhelmed by the opportunity that I was in tears.

Hay Plays---I played that piano, too!!!!

In NYC and in Orlando.

Small world.

Good picture. I'm betting you made it sound better than he did!

Just straying off topic for a sec here to say that that piano of his had the lightest action I've ever felt! It made playing with my little bitty hands way easier!

Thanks Tom, I quite often have to adjust the pictures I download from PW .. and from other sites as well. I had already done so before I scrolled down here! :headslap:

Great picture, Kathy! Very much so.

(Was Jack holding up a cute little bunny, or just making funny faces? ..... You don't have[/b] to tell us if you don't want to. :p


Bob

[edit] ok, i opened this thread half hour ago and forgot to refresh it before I responded. Otherwise I would have inserted a "lucky dog" type comment about Plays.

Plays,

When I worked for the S&S C&A dept more than 30 years ago, that piano was sometimes in "the Basement" (where the C&A dept was located) for work. Franz M. (my boss) was the one who always worked on it. He adjusted the action and voicing specifically to M. Horowitz' desires. It was indeed extremely light. The voicing was also "unusual". Many top pianists who tried it thought it was very difficult to control. I remember one who referred to it as "squirrely"

Staying off topic--was that the original action he'd played or the one Steinway replaced it with on rebuild? They threw away his original, but I don't know just when. I've read many complaints from techs about that fact. The way his regulation has been described sounds quite like what I like--very light with letoff very close to the string, just short of blocking.

That photo was taken TODAY and I have been at work!

jf

Ruh-Roh.

In THAT case, jf, I suggest you go home and get ON THE JOB!

Bob

You guys are SOOOO funny.
And just how do you know it was taken today,JF?

Your hair looks wavy like it did yesterday.

jf

Just to let you all know, I'm capturing as many pictures as I can. I'll be compiling them all into a slide show album to send anyone who is interested. Just PM me.

plays, I was asked by MrsKB to post a picture with both of us

I think I did "somewhere else" but don't think I did in this thread, so:

Part of a family picture taken one or two weeks ago. My mother wanted a picture of all of us to put in her wallet

Me last year.

Best I could do in a hurry guys..
me on the left, SWMBO in the middle, and 14 on the right. Taken by friends whilw we were on a whale watching tour off Newfoundland last summer.

Gonna miss this place - see you all... somewhere.

Been real busy at work, so gotta go.

Love to all,
Jamie

Here's something I cropped out of a photo I had here at work.


I think I'll go home and play a medley of standards to say good-bye to the CR. This post makes me think of "I'll Be Seeing You", which was always the closing song for the mixers I went to as a college freshman, and a sentiment that I hope holds true for the CR members as well.

Big Al

Brendan, you are so different to how I imagined you... so much better!!! And here I thought you were a music geek...

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Originally posted by kathyk:
Elena, I wish I could say it twas I who did. It was my son who happens to be in art school. No coincidence, huh?[/b]

I should have known! :rolleyes: those darned artists...

Will someone please tell me how to upload a picture onto PW. I can't get into my web space (my FTP settings have been wiped out and I can't remember them - ARGG!). [/b]

Kathy, haven't read through the thread yet but if no one has suggested it use:

http://www.picturehost.co.uk/

Apple was the one who first recommended the place. It is quite useful!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Kathy, that is a GREAT picture! It is so you!!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Thanks for the help Bob - I apprectiate it. If you could help me find the thread you posted it in, or could let me know what your hand warming trick is, that would be very healpfull Apple*.

*Sorry for getting off subject of thread.

I gotta hand it to you, plays, you got people to post photos here that I never could.

Jamie, it is so nice to finally put a face to your name! The same goes for everyone else here.

KB,what in the world did you do to get such a hottie??

You ain't to bad yerself...

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Here's one of Wacky....



And one of me taken a split second before I threw the most enormous tantrum upon finding my favourite cocktail missing from the menu.



Edit: Oops! Sorry about the err, size issues.

Tkx Elena,

I'm not exactly Playboy material, which is why I chose a picture with my beloved, to add some beauty to the pic. I had to compete with the rest of you somehow!

Jamie

kluurs by Chicago lakefront...

Hey gryph, not so my friend! Your thread is one of the most successful ones in the entire history of the CR! (which I have downloaded)

I'll try to wait till the very end before downloading mine to give everyone a chance to post, if they wish to do so.

Katie, I concurr on the Monalisa smile thing. Your expression is priceless (and I love your hair!)

Fizzy you have such a great face...I would love to see a picture of you without the glasses and the hat, which hide so much of it. Go pull another one up, quick!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Sorry, it's the only recent one I can find...

Jodi

Gawd Lucy, you are soooo lucky! Wacky is a hunk. You aren't hard on the eyes either.

Kluurs, you're a fine looking man! Can I call you sweetie?

Plays,

Anything for you...

K

Kluurs,
Read your PMs ....
then you can SPANK ME !!

LUCY!!!!! LOL!!!

Damn I really wish we could meet. Wonderful pics of both of you. You make such a great couple.

Going to sleep. Perhaps I may awaken tomorrow to find this all gone...

Thank you Plays and Gryphon for these threads, and to all you who decided to come out of anonymity and finally post a picture. Now I'm kind of sad this is all going...

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Katie, I saw him first![/b]

No bloody way Plays ....
We have something going on til after summer ...
Hands off til fall babe !!


kathyk; You look so intelligent and confident in all your pictures ... 2 very admirable qualities I think.
KB and Mrs. KB look so much in love ...
Big Al looks like the kind of man who'd be a great father or maybe grandpa someday ... Friendly and warm.
Now I finally know who Mikester is ... and you're tres cute!
Sarah: You're beautiful but I thought you were older ... must be your sophistication showing through.
Jamie: You and your family look like you enjoy many good times together ... family so important.
Nunatax ... Another great looking man ... (and probably quite married too )
Lucy and Wacky ... what a great couple ... 12 years is a long time to commit to each other ... Congratulations on your recent engagement.
I'd love to be able to ride a horse again Jodi ... This is a lovely pic of both of you.

Oh Jodi, you look wonderful! And what a mount!

Elena
www.pianofourhands.com

Whoa Nelly! Wacky in his BVDs. (a little blackmail perhaps ) Nice pics you two!!

KB, lovely one of you and the Mrs.

Kluurs, you ain't bad either. Quite the buff feller - I dare say you give Johnny's pecs a run for their money.

Jodi, I love yer horsey pictures! (Guys we've already seen a Jodi in the bikini pic - let the girl show some modesty for Pete sakes)

I swear, Michiel, every pic I've seen of you looks almost the same - oh, except the one in which you were sporting a yellow beak. You must be at the Barber's every other day.

Katie your piano pose is wonderful, and I'm glad to know that there *was* a body with limbs behind that quilt.

Sarrah, pretty girl, is that the first pic you've posted here?

I think the bid on the archive just went up. :p

Wow. That was amazing! I never really went through any of the other pic threads, so much of that was totally new to me.

Ciao! (If that's how you spell it).

Interesting.

Here's an old one (circa 2000 or so) of me (in the back/middle) and my sons Lucas (the artist in blue shirt on the left) and Dan (the pianist in green shirt on the right ).

It was taken on top of the Empire State building when the three of us went there for a week. (a week in NYC, not a week in the Empire State Building )



I didn't know ANY of you at that time and I feel very fortunate to have met so many of you since then. ... [jodi]sniff[/jodi]

(I hope the [jodi] thing isn't taken as too much of a joke, the CR demise does sadden me, though I think many of the relationships will continue.)

Bob

Oh, how nice, Bob! What handsome fellers! (Hey, we both have two sons: artist and musician).


I just can't tear myself away, and I have dinner to make. GOOD BYE CRUEL PIANO WORLD!!!!!!
(just kidding Frank you know I love what you've done here, even though I am an ingrate).

Bob, nice photo -- your sons are very fine looking young men!

Kathy, I finally trudged downstairs to fix dinner. I'm so distressed that tonight we are eating a frozen pizza. (no Bob, it's baked, but it's one of those frozen thingies with rising crust)

We're having carp casserole.

I think once it's not here all day, things will be better . . .

I gotta tell ya, this is new. I've never been on a forum that was just disappeared. I've seen splinter groups and suchlike. Usually works out just fine, and sometimes better than ever.

Never witnessed a suicide before.

Cindy, quick! Did you ever post your picture?

I typed those very words earlier today, then obliterated them.

She didn't, not here.

But I will tell you she is one beautiful woman (and she has great slippers).

jf

HELP

JODI'S BEING ELECTROCUTED.

an assisted one

Here's Ivory and the soon-to-be-Mrs. Thumper

Ivory, you made it! We were worried!

Ok, I'll post a quick one right under the gun. Sorry for the size. no time to mess with it.

I'm on the right, recognize my friend?

I know I said that my last post was my last, but I forgot that I was going to do this! These are the best I have to offer right now:

On my last day of highschool:




On my 20th birthday:

[/b]

John Glenn?

yup. got another one where we're engaged deep in conversation, but you cant see my face as well in that one.

you know, Sidd, you remind me an awful lot of someone I know. It's a good thing. A bit weird. But good.

jgoo, you look a lot like a friend of mine.

http://www.pianoworld.com/Uploads/files/Untitled.jpg

CHAS

Thumper,

Your mailbox is full. I will gladly send you the album, but I need your email address to do so.

Good pic nephew ...
Glad both you CHAS, Sid and Ivory posted too ... very good pics !!!

jgoo, it's so great to finally see you!

You're too cool, man.

ciao all..

Sidd, thanks for the picture, helps to have a face to put with the poster.

Elena, you probably will never see this (because you've already gone to bed)
But thanks for your compliments. I DID luck out with her!

Ivory:
Fine pic, and again, good to have a face. PLEASE keep in touch with me via email or some other means. You've been quite a relief at times here, and have many times spoken to me when you mean to be speaking to someone else.

KathyK:
Wonderful to see a pic of you finally. wish i could've seen one of JF as well, but our days are not over so there is still time.


Everyone else, thanks for the wonderful memories. we've all devoted more time to this place than we ever should've, but none of it will be regretted on my end.

To those I insulted and never meant to: I apologize.
To those I insulted and meant to: I REALLY apologize.
To those I offended, made mad, or in some other way slighted, my humblest of apologies.

I thank each and every one of you for heated debate, gentle discussion, and cozy nights full of laughter.

Some of you I will see in 30 minutes in other forums, and others I may never speak to again. Sadly I fear I will forget some entirely, without catchy screennames, avatars, and cutting-edge wit on a daily basis as a reminder.

You've all carried me through things of which you have no idea, nor should you... and I thank you for it.

Good night, and good fortunes to you all.

Good pic deserves to be fixed, Chas.

Well, I cant deny the weird. But "remind me of someone I know" is never good. I'm an original, baby. (for better or for worse)