Sweet!

[Susan Kline]

That's a delightful story. I don't suppose it was a pet ferret ...?

One place I saw roaches in the piano. Real bummer ... I moved my kit to a 
wooden chair, and
cleaned it out thoroughly as soon as I got home. There was the teacher who 
gave me an emergency call after her student had thrown up (red beans) into 
the keyboard. She'd already cleaned off what she could reach.

Then there was the voice teacher with the pet cockatiel. First it presented 
one side of the teacher's phone conversation, complete with the oohs and 
ohs, and pauses. Then it started solfeging scales and arpeggios. Broke me up.

Susan

At 01:39 AM 7/5/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, it wasn't exactly a tip, or even that good, but here's the story:
>
>The FIRST time I ever tuned a piano in somebody's house, I walked to the
>door, and was greeted by a nice couple, I'd say in their mid-thirties.
>They told me that they had just had new carpet put in, and would I mind
>taking off my shoes.  I said "No problem" left my shoes at the door, then
>went to the piano, a spinet I believe.  Anyway, there was some minor
>action adjusting to be made (This was the first tuning of the piano after
>it had been delivered, so I didn't have to do much) so I had to take the
>lower panel off.  I decided to leave it off until I was done with the
>piano, just in case.
>
>The next thing I knew, I felt something nibbling at my toes.  I looked
>down, and there was a ferret chewing on my sock, which had bunched up
>below my toes.  I started, and accidentally kicked the ferret into the
>piano, where it promptly left a present right next to the sustain pedal,
>in the trapworks.  It took me the better part of an hour to get all of the
>ferret poop out of the piano.
>
>Being a new tuner, I really didn't know how to react- should I tell the
>owners what happened?  I ended up not saying a thing, but we had a good
>laugh in my local chapter.
>
>In the end, the ferret ran off behind the sofa, and I decided that my
>future would be in shop work.
>
>--Justin A. Kraft
>
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