Funny maybe Not so Funny Stories.

[Maxpiano]

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I once was tuning a spinet after having opened it up underneath - regulating
the damper pedal or something like that.  The piano owner had a full grown
kitten that insisted on playing with the hammers as they danced back and
forth.  After about the fifth time of being physically removed from the
keyboard, the feline appeared to get the point and stayed down.  But after a
minute or so, I began to see the hammers moving when I was not striking the
keys.  The little brat had seen the stickers moving and began pushing them
from underneath.

At another home, a woman was caring for her daughter's big black tomcat, a fat
cat if there ever was one.  While I tuned the Knabe console, he climbed up on
the end table next and eyed upward to the spot where he supposed the piano top
to be.  His tail began to twitch with ever increasing frequency, wanting to
see what was going on.  Then with a bound he cat-apulted up over, as he
probably had done many times before.  Only with the top up, it was not like
before, and there was one mad scramble....

Mrs. Black had an old Kranich and Bach upright.  And a friendly puppy.  Was
there also a broken string?  Anyway, for some reason I had removed the action
and laid it nearby on the floor while I turned my attention to the harp.  Too
late, I turned to look at the action, to see the puppy contentedly chewing on
#88 hammer instead of his old shoe.

Bill Maxim, RPT