Kibbles and bits

[robert goodale]

I used to know a tech in northern Michigan who had a similar experience.  He
went out on a call to work on a piano that had quit working entirely several
months earlier.  When he arrived he found that every key was stiff as a board.
When he opened the front it literally exploded with dog food.  Apparently the
owner had several large dogs and bought food in bulk.  A rodent was steeling the
food a morsel at a time and storing it in the piano until the instrument was
completely filled up!

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV



Diane Hofstetter wrote:

> I went to pick up a Kimball console action and keys to make them "lighter".
> While opening the piano, I was mildly interested in the exuberant claim for
> some part of the piano and might have even been able to post it to the list
> if it weren't for what I saw when I started removing the keys.
>
> As the first four or five keys came out, I noticed something brown, took
> more out and more brown. It seemed to be dog food.  More keys came out, more
> dog (and cat and hair and miscl. coins) food.  Almost every last space under
> the keys was filled with dried dog and cat food!  No wonder the dip was
> shallow!
>
> Customer brought me a tin pie plate and spatula, we removed about three
> pounds of animal food.  Customer said "no wonder the dog and cats like the
> piano so much!"