A plea

[Stephen Airy]

At 05:58 PM 12/1/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Actually, I never considered cats a problem, and certainly have never 
>experience washing
>cat pee off my knees, or anywhere else, from having to work on the floor. 
>At least not in
>a home I would continue past the entre'. As for the cat with the stuck 
>foot. I bet thats
>the last time the cat jumps up into the piano. An old trick for keeping 
>cats from jumping
>up on counters is to place a lot of forks on it. Couple times is all it 
>takes. And if you
>do have a particular stubborn cat... try a sheet of tack paper with 
>thumbtacks stuck all
>over it. One time is usually enough for the cat ... grin.
>
>Cats are curious..but they are not stupid.
>
>Carol Beigel wrote:
>
> > I don't think it's a good idea to give anyone the picture that cats and
> > pianos mix. This is the time of year when many people working in the piano
> > business are especially overtired, oversheduled, working their last nerves,
> > and could care less if they ever saw another piano or customer, so this
> > little story, although it seemed hillarious at the time, might not sound so
> > funny if you are a cat person.
> >

OK, maybe I sent the story, but - I AM a cat person!

> >   I was working for a large piano retailer and business was gangbusters
> > during this holiday season.  People of all descriptions were buying 
> pianos -
> > I swear some of them thought they were stereo systems with strings!  Anyway
> > this lady had just taken delivery of a baby grand piano, and the movers had
> > just left.  Suddenly she hears her cat squalling because its foot is caught
> > in the bass strings!  She calls the customer service department and our
> > receptionist just lost it!  She was laughing so hard trying to page a
> > technician.  You could hear this cat in the background over the speaker
> > phone, and the lady was in such a panic.  The whole service department was
> > in stitches while this poor woman was hysterical - and the cat kept howling
> > in the background!  Finally, someone had the presence of mind to tell 
> her to
> > get a wooden spoon and pry the strings apart to get her cat's foot from
> > between the strings.
> >
> > I doubt you will get many positive responses from piano technicians about
> > pictures of kittys on pianos.  Many  of us have the experience of removing
> > cat pee from the knees of our pants due to working on pedal lyres on 
> carpets
> > in kitty homes.  And the list goes on....
> >
> > Carol Beigel
> >
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway


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