This One's for Carl, was RE: Piano poltergeists?

[Alan Barnard]

Had an ancient Lyon & Healy grand piano stored for many years in an old,
long unused chicken coop. 

Now the owner insists hears clucking, cackling, scratching, and crowing
sounds coming from the piano. 

He called in a spirtualist, but she kept laughing at him; he lost his cool
and smacked her! Of course, he was arrested for striking a happy medium. 

They also arrested her because she was a known fraud: People felt sorry for
her because she was a dwarf, so she easily took advantage of them. 

They sentenced her to 90 days in jail, but she escaped. The next day's
headlines read: "Small Medium at Large." 

Anyway, I checked it myself and, sure enough, the piano has a serious case
of poultrygeists. 

I tried telling them to get the flock out of there but they wouldn't. So I
called in Jack LaLane to exercise them ... 

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 02/25/2006 1:30:52 PM
> Subject: Piano poltergeists?
>
>    I tend 3 pianos in public places. 2 Steinways and a
> big old Chickering. Over the last month, some
> "Guerilla-interior-decorator" has been putting the
> lids down, the music desk up ( on the Chickereing,
> very fragile  roseweood fretwork )then folding the
> front part of the lid over the upraised music desk, so
> the desk is holding it open at an angle! GRRRRRRRRRRR!
> Besides looking profoundly stupid, it is damaging the
> desks. Is this obnoxious behavior widespread, or
> something from one of those repulsive
> interior-decorator shows, that has suddenly infected
> the public ?
>      Thump
>
> P.S. I suspect that whoever does this also owns a
> Pekingese.