From today's New York Times: Tale of Rachmaninoff and Medical Education Sergei Rachmaninoff's long and meaty fingers, capable of playing intervals of a 12th, plied these keys, they say... But the instrument is not in the home of a wealthy piano aficionado or in Steinway's basement or in a famous concert hall. It is perched above the Hudson River near the George Washington Bridge, hidden away in a dormitory of Columbia University's <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/col umbia_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> medical school, the College of Physicians and Surgeons.... "We can find no proof that Rachmaninoff donated it, or that it was donated by somebody and it was Rachmaninoff's piano," said Stephen E. Novak, the head of archives for the university's health sciences library. Barbara J. Niss Mount Sinai Archives Levy Library, Box 1102 1 Gustave L. Levy Place New York, NY 10029-6574 (212) 241-7239 (212) 831-2625 (fax) A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>