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I've "Gifted" to many, (handing CD's to outsiders, not insiders).

Only Ghermed once, but was indirectly, as it was to the bus driver for Conway Twitty, while being able to step in his bus in NJ at the Garden State Fair when the park was still there in Cherry Hill. Probably did just end in the trash anyway, (cassette then).

Met a lot of celeb while tuning their pianos, (players of piano, or for the singers that happened to have a piano player). Never Ghermed any of them. If we talked about music, it was mostly just normal music talk. If the business came up, I would just ask about it, then listen to the very interesting stories. I could sense that any meeting between the celeb and me was NOT going to be about me. (Except one). For he asked me to play one of my songs after the tuning, and he would "play along". But just giving a CD or cassette at that or anytime did seem to be not a good idea, unless the conversation drifted that way, and was asked. But like I said, the talks weren't about me anyway. I wanted them to be at some point. But, mostly, it was just about them doing their soundcheck and getting ready for another show.

The guy who asked me to play something and he would play along? Issac Stern. I still can hear the whole duet! The song was one of my instrumentals. And he just took it and "played along" as "he" wrote it! That was enough for me!

John