Guess who's almost old enough to drink!!
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I think Jolly and Jodi might be the longest lasting posters. Larry was in that early group. I don't know if that was a Piano World thing or not. That I think was a Usenet group. I joined when it was a forum part of Piano World. All that might have been going on a full 10 years pre TNCR.
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rec.music.makers, or something like that. Dewey was in that group. That one felt like the Wild West compared to piano world.
A few of those folks migrated over to piano world and stayed for awhile. I think I first posted in piano world in 1998-ish, asking about a refurbished mason and Hamlin, I started my search for a grand piano back then. Crazy that it’s been so long, feeling like you have these friends you’ve never met, and the images I have of many are tied to their avatars. I’ve kept the original one that came from piano world. I was looking back through my photo files on the computer the other day, and there are a lot of avatars saved, I used to change them up in photoshop for holidays. mine and everyone else’s. -
I think the fist time I logged into PW was 2001. I was then considering to upgrade my little Kawai studio piano to a larger upright. As a result of the forum I ended buying a Petrof 135. Wonderful instrument (yes, the sostenuto pedal on the 135 really does work) and it me gave fourteen years of enjoyment. Sold it it 2016 for what I paid for it new in 2001.
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I found a piano with lots of input from the forum in Colorado in 2000 - we were there on sabbatical. Lots of nice piano stores in the Front range. Still have the piano - still play, though not ever as much as I should. This piano - a Charles Walter - has been in a moving van six times since we bought it. From one end of the country to the other and back. They almost flipped it into the garden during the last move.
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The Old Coffee Room was one hoot of a place. It was pretty much a cancer on the Piano World Forum. Poor Frank set up the forum for some informational comradery among people buying and selling pianos and to maybe sell a couple of piano benches and he got a bunch of piano knowledgeable psychopaths constantly tearing each other new ones. I was quite a monster myself in those days. (Sigh.)
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I joined in 2005 when I was a baby at my first job out of college (man, it was almost exactly like Jim in The Office), except we sold telecom wire instead of paper, but the office size, layout, and even the boss looked just like Michael Scott. We even had a holiday party on a boat like they did in the first season!
Anyway, I was really bored at work and they had blocked chat rooms, so I was searching to find a somewhat interactive place to chat and found the old coffee room somehow. What a stroke of random luck. I started a thread about how I can debate and beat anyone or something like that and I think @tom-k said "I'm scared" thinking I was going to be a bully. Turned out I was just a young idiot. Now I'm a middle aged idiot.
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