Treasures in pianos

[Willem Blees]

Speaking of communion wavers,?I got a call from a church to replace the bass strings on their grand piano. A full tray of communion wine cups was put on the piano lid, for the pianist to take one, and someone accidentally tipped over the tray, spilling all the cups of wine onto the bass strings,?into the action and on the dampers. The action survived, albeit with wine stains on the hammers, but the strings had become?dead and buzzing.?


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: Treasures in pianos


Can't come close to matching that... but I've found a communion wafer (actually, the church pianist called and asked me to retrieve it because it "really should not be there") and, in said church pianist's brother's supper club S&S "B" (for Beater?), a cigarette butt.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, <reggaepass at aol.com> wrote:


Now that you mention it, I too have found a used condom in a piano (school of music practice room).? A pair of underpants as well.

Alan Eder






-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Blankenship <tunerdude at comcast.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:34 am
Subject: Re: Treasures in pianos





Things found by myself in pianos include:

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USED condoms

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Robin Blankenship

Matoaca, Virginia

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