The life and times of Danny Lyons. This is mainly so my family can keep up with me and see pictures as I put them up.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Sunday morning

After getting to bed finally at 1:00 am last night, we got up at 6:00 am to make sure that Joe and Lessie could leave the apartment by 7:00 which they managed to do. I left the apartment at 8:30 to make my way down to the American Church in Paris. the weather was absolutely beautiful today, but quite cold so i put on my long underwear, heavy coat, gloves and ear muffs. I did stay warm, but had to keep moving to do so. I figured out the subway system to get close to there with no problem, and walked for about 20 minutes from the subway station. On the way I saw:

this sculpture on the middle of a bridge leading across the Seine.












This humongous ( and I mean really humongous) building with a glass roof called the Grand Palais. Bonnie tells me it's an exhibition hall that was built for one of the World's Fair exhibitions (she's never been in it...).



This thing called the Petit Palais (little palace) which is really huge and not petite at all. I'm told that it's incredible inside, but I didn't have time to see it.

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Danny is the Steinway piano technician and head of the piano technology department of Dollarhide Music and Sound, specializing in tuning and rebuilding the Gulf Coast's finest pianos and harpsichords, including antique restoration of such historical pianos as the Steinway in the Mississippi Governor's Mansion and the 1850 square grand piano in the Oakleigh House in Mobile. Danny is the area's concert tuner for both the Mobile and Pensacola Symphonies, The University of West Florida, Pensacola Junior College, and numerous artist series throughout the area including the prestigious "Music at Christ Church" series. In his 32 year career as a piano technician, he has prepared pianos for the area concerts of numerous celebrities, including Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope, Izsac Perlman, Harry Connick, Jr., Barry Manilow, Roger Williams, Peter Nero, Lou Rawls, Garrison Keiler's "A Prairie Home Companion", and many others. In 2004 he was commissioned to rebuild a Steinway in Novi Sad, Serbia/Montenegro, and traveled there and spent a month in the country on that project. In 2006 he was invited back to Novi Sad as a solo handbell artist.