neat things found in grands

[Thomas Cole]

The most unusual thing I've encountered was maple syrup. A woman called 
me up and said that she had poured maple syrup all over her keys. I 
figured that she dropped a plate on her piano as she was going by and 
the "all" part was an exaggeration. But no, she had indeed poured maple 
syrup over the *entire* keyboard, explaining that she was angry at her 
daughter... 

I didn't press for further explanation, and proceeded to clean the keys. 
Strangely, I've not tuned that piano before or since.

Tom Cole

Dave Nereson wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Gary Bruce" <Gary.Bruce@oc.edu>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 9:22 PM
>Subject: RE: neat things found in grands
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>     On the "old list" of a couple years ago, this same subject came up and
>someone had a long list compiled over an entire career.  (But it wasn't
>limited to grands).  Almost anything you could think of from stale
>sandwiches to dead animals and diamond rings to toilet paper had been found
>in pianos.  I found a dead bird just last year in a studio upright in a high
>school cafeteria.  And one time, the equivalent of about a 5-lb. bag of
>dogfood under the keys and down in the bottom that mice had carried in
>morsel by morsel.  (Lady wondered why her keys wouldn't go down and made
>crunching noises).
>    The list is endless; my favorites are antique stuff -- old coins,
>trolley tokens, gas rationing stamps, original price tags, dealer receipts,
>etc.   --David Nereson, RPT
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