Beginning of Semester Weirdness

[Paul E. Dempsey]

Thought ya'll might enjoy this. Chalk it up to things I never had 
happen before in all my years here at MU.

I went in to a practice room this afternoon to tune one of our three 
Seiler uprights. As you probably know, these pianos do not have 
casters... they sit right on the floor. As I lifted the lid it scraped 
on the wall...the piano was sitting dead in the corner of the room. I 
proceeded to move the thing away from both walls. 

It would not budge..period. Now, these are really heavy pianos but I 
have moved them before, but this one refused to move.

The maintenance folks had waxed all the floors just a few weeks ago. 
Apparently, the wax has finally dried and glued the piano to the floor 
!!! :-)  

I went and checked the other two Seilers and they are glued to the 
floor as well.  

I'll check with the floor guys tomorrow to see if they used a new kind 
of wax with a CA component before I drag out the pry bars.

This won't make the top ten list of crazy things I've seen but it was 
worth a mention.

Cheers, Go Herd and all that






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Paul E. Dempsey RPT
Piano Technician
Department of Music
Marshall University