Piano Took a Fall- Won't Hold Tune

[Ron Overs]

>A year or so ago, a prof I know grabbed the top of a Wurlitzer 
>studio during a class and, as he walked around it, attempted to spin 
>it to face another direction. It worked. As the piano lay facing the 
>ceiling, and the building quit shaking, he realized how close it 
>came to landing on his foot. Now, he pays closer attention - not to 
>keeping his feet clear, but to keeping the casters on the floor.
>Ron N

My first year as a piano technician (1975) was spent at Elvys in 
Sydney. One of our very fine technicians (Loui Piaggio, who wasn't a 
tuner) had an upright piano fall down right on his feet the year 
before I started. He spent months in hospital recovering. When I knew 
Loui he always walked like a duck, and lived on a diet of pain 
killers. He retired to Italy and last I heard he got cancer. I'd like 
to know how he ended up. He was a wonderful fellow and an absolute 
perfectionist woodworker and technician. I can still hear Loui's 
exasperated calls around the workshop - in my head. When one of us 
would do something which he considered a bit ordinary he'd say "Hey, 
vot you do?"

Ron O.
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