An education in stability

[Richard Moody]

I may have mentioned the piano that fell out of an airplane for a show, I
believe it was "La Cage...."      Anyhow it fell out when being unloaded on
the ground, not at 10,000 feet. It landed on its top. The keys were all out
of place.  I charged for putting them back in and gluing broken case parts.
The sec. asked about the tuning.  I said I didn't tune it,it was close
enough, that I was due the next day to tune it for the show. He said"I
thought it might need two tunings being that it fell out of an airplane."
He was the one who called me in the first place and I was incredulous (with
him leading me on a little bit) that a piano could fall out of an airplane
and still be put back together again. The name? I fergot.  I guess it is one
of those "trusty ones"  Michael J  mentions.    ---ric

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Jorgensen <Michael.Jorgensen@cmich.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: An education in stability


> David,
>This trusty piano never goes out of tune and sounds pretty good.
>       One day it was dropped 5' or so into the pit.    When I was called
in, I found the rear casters
> shattered with pits in the concrete where they landed.  A pedal rod was
> knocked out of place and holding the dampers off the strings.  AMAZINGLY,
> THE PIANO WAS STILL IN GOOD TUNE!!!
> -Mike Jorgensen
>
> David Renaud wrote:
>
> > Doing a pit show for "Chorus Line" as a musician, and was asked to
> > tune the piano. The crew brought their own piano into the pit, an
> > apartment sized Yamaha.