Thought ya'll might enjoy this. Chalk it up to things I never had happen before in all my years here at MU. I went in to a practice room this afternoon to tune one of our three Seiler uprights. As you probably know, these pianos do not have casters... they sit right on the floor. As I lifted the lid it scraped on the wall...the piano was sitting dead in the corner of the room. I proceeded to move the thing away from both walls. It would not budge..period. Now, these are really heavy pianos but I have moved them before, but this one refused to move. The maintenance folks had waxed all the floors just a few weeks ago. Apparently, the wax has finally dried and glued the piano to the floor !!! :-) I went and checked the other two Seilers and they are glued to the floor as well. I'll check with the floor guys tomorrow to see if they used a new kind of wax with a CA component before I drag out the pry bars. This won't make the top ten list of crazy things I've seen but it was worth a mention. Cheers, Go Herd and all that ------------------- Paul E. Dempsey RPT Piano Technician Department of Music Marshall University
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