Oh...this is too funny and scary! A.J. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Richard Oliver Snelson <rsnelson@dave-world.net> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Sweet tuning melts string! Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:47:15 -0600 > 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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