Too Helpful Customer

[Farrell]

I sure hope the owner vacuumed up all those silly little round dirty felty 
things on all those rusty pins sticking up from the keybed......

BTDT

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Ryan" <pryan2 at the-beach.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: Too Helpful Customer


>I had to pull a drop action on a 60 year old Kimball spinet.  After I had 
>removed the action, and keys, the owner asked if he could vacuum the dust 
>under the keys etc.  Glad to have the help,  I accepted his assistance. 
>After tinkering with the action on a table in the next room, I return to 
>the piano and found the owner, scrubbing the strings with a big scrub brush 
>and bucket of water.  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!  After drying them with paper 
>towels, I finished the job uneventfully.  Anyone have any predictions on 
>the life of this piano from experience?  Remember this is Florida.
>
> Phil Ryan
> Miami Beach
>