Tom Cole wrote: > I haven't had to clear off any nativity scenes yet but I've had my share > of situations where the owner just didn't think that anything other than > _playing_ the piano would ever occur: an upright _tightly_ wedged into a > small space so that the top could not be opened (or piano pulled out), a > 5-gallon fish aquarium on a tall upright, and who hasn't heard the line, > "Oh, well, can't you just open the front like this" (swings out the > music board of an old upright). The list keeps getting longer (and the > owners keep getting more creative). > > My all-time worst encounter with a cerebrally challenged pianist was > when, several years ago, I walked into the living room of a modest house > and was shown to a Yamaha G2. Its lid was open. The reason that the lid > was open was so that all of the plants that were placed on the plate > could get light and have room to grow. I suppose. Being a piano > technician and not much of a gardener, I'm only guessing. > > As Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up. This guy was for real. > > Yesssss, I stayed to tune the piano but only out of pity for the > instrument. When I left, I offered him some helpful suggestions (like, a > CFIII could hold more plants). The ingrate hasn't invited me back. You should have tried to sell him a self-watering system. You could have connected it to a DamppeChaser humidistat and taken care of two things at once!! Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV
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