I'm thinking Upright, not Grand. At 09:55 AM 12/1/00 -0500, you 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. > > 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 > >>From: Kgj38@AOL.COM >>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >>To: pianotech@ptg.org >>Subject: A plea >>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:00:22 EST >> >>In a message dated 11/29/00 11:32:44 PM Central Standard Time, >>stephen_airy@yahoo.com writes: >> >><< Sometime I'm thinking >> it would be interesting to use a picture of the piano for an album cover >> (it's a player piano so it has sliding doors on the front panel -- I'm >> thinking it might be cute to put the cat in there and then have her looking >> out the slot in the middle). >> >> >>For goodness sake! As a piano lover and a cat person, I implore you to not >>do that! Pianos and cats do not mix well and a cat is not a prop for cute >>album covers. >> >>Trying to hold my tongue before I say too much, >>Karen Johnson, Associate >>Rochester, MN >>(typing while 12 week old kitten is sitting in my lap) > >_____________________________________________________________________________________ >Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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