Lord Birkitt - A boat show on water

Originally posted by rogerd First ever winner of the Birkett has just been rescued and beautifully restored. Grumpf Look away now. http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2656754830

Looking gorgeous - I haven't time for wooden boats, but I love them, admire the effort required to restore and look after them. Especially good that it is an Int 14, such great boats.

Originally posted by kneewrecker Do you tell other users on the noisemaker forums that the black keys should actually be white and vice-versa?

Interestingly they were not always the way they are now. The same man who restored Blue Peter restores vintage piano`s and he has a very early one where the keys you would expect to be black are white and vice versa

There are noisemaker forums?

As it happens I own a Baby Grand built by Broadwood & Sons, well the bread knife sorted it, back in the days when antique brown wood was still much sought after, now it's next to worthless and co-incidently for sale since she's up and sold my gaff from under me and we're on the move.
Personally however I have a yamaha keyboard thing which I find much more convenient in my pathetic and these days infrequent attempts at tuneful noise making, something I've yet to master, a bit like dingy sailing only worse.

Er thanks too much information, I'm already traumatised that someone could waste so much of their life making an old thing er new again but still old, wood botherers they're really not all there, really they're not, it's a sickness.