San Diego Grand There are several grand pianos in San Diego County that are more than 100 years old. I visited Mrs. Paul Ringler to examine and play her 1883 Steinway “B.” Mrs. Ringler, now …
Susan Dramm: “Very few of my friends have pianos anymore.”
Posted April 27, 1995
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