Sweet tuning melts string!

[robert goodale]

LOL,  ROFL, etc.  You made my day with this one!  Thanks for sharing!!  `<:~)

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV



Richard Oliver Snelson wrote:

> >
>
> Being new in the piano business, everything that happens to me is "NEW."
> I think this one will be new to a lot of other folks too.  I use a SAT III
> for tuning and was about to complete the tuning in the high treble area of
> my C173 Grand. Bamb! Zip! Slap! a string let go in the bass area. #33, F#
> leaped out of the piano and hit the back wall of the room. Darn! Thought I
> had been shot.  I finished the treble before looking.  Here's what I
> found.  SAT was plugged into the charger, Was! Wasn't now! The tip of the
> charger had pulled out of the SAT and had shorted on a string and
> something else and had heated the string red hot!  The two blue ends of
> the now cold string were my proof.
>
> I'm glad it was my piano!  Are there more new things to happen?  Yes! It's
> like a piano book I studied from: A Dozen a Day.
>
> Eight more days and I'm retired from engineering and full time in my new
> shop. Can't wait.  Please visit my shop if you're in Central Illinois.
> Clinton, Illinois.   Home Phone: 217-935-4215,   Shop 217-934-4284  The
> coffee pot will be on.
> Richard Oliver Snelson