Beginning of Semester Weirdness

[Marcel Carey]

Our maintenance people unplugged all the dampp chaser systems to move the pianos and never plugged them back. Administration was on vacations until mid august. Guess what... Pitch lowering ±40¢ on most pianos. So, I plugged them and will wait for the pitch to stabilize.

Marcel Carey, RPT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul E. Dempsey
> Sent: September 1, 2004 3:11 PM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Cc: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Beginning of Semester Weirdness
> 
> 
> 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
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