During our tour we needed to be assured of a keyboard for use at rehearsals and for some of our concerts. Our friend Karl-Heinz Hartmann (Charly) helped get us access to a very good one at a reasonable rate. He also picked it up and drove it from his home near the Netherlands border to Leipzig where he ensured it was available on the first day (March 13) when our tour group arrived.
The rental cost was covered by a very generous donation from Lee Ann Chan, owner of Eagle Place Apothecary, but the arrangement required that we get the e-piano and its associated equipment back to Charly at the end of the tour. It had to be back within 2 weeks of when he had picked it up. A big thanks to Lee Ann and Charly for their help.
Well, today Charly showed up in the village of Stadtkyll, and we handed over the piano to him to take back to where he had rented it. During the 8 day concert tour one of our choristers, Stuart Bergstra, who is the husband of our accompanist, Anne-Marie, looked after the piano, making sure it was safe and with the help of volunteers getting it to the sites where we needed it.
Once we got to the Munich Airport on March 21st, Stuart handed it over to Elfrieda and me, and we took it to the Hertz car rental where we picked up our vehicle. The piano and all of its accompanying equipment rode, with us as we travelled from Munich Airport to my cousin's house in Goeppingen (near Stuttgart), where we stayed for 2 nights. On the 23rd we continued our journey across Germany to the little town of Stadtkyll (near the Belgian border). Today Charly arrived to pick it up and after a short visit we waved goodbye to him and the e-piano.
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