[pianotech] Interesting Find

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

Mice storing them for the winter.  I had a customer expecting family that evening. The night before, she had filled to 10" bowls full of hard candy. When I got there that morning, both bowls were empty. The bowls were on end tables on either side of a sofa.  I pulled the cushions and show her where all the candy had disappeared.

Ken Gerler
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Terry Farrell 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting Find


  I had a piano some years back where the customer said none of the keys worked - you couldn't push them down. I went there and removed some of the keys and found the entire keybed - all the space under the keys - was completely filled with acorns. Not really 100% sure how they got there.


  Terry Farrell


  On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Marc Mailhot wrote:


          Hi everyone.

          Just got back from a supposed 30 min piano evaluation that turned into a 2 hour service  all.

          Seems a rodent got into her Wurlitzer Spinet...built a nice nest and helped himself to piles of dogfood...still on the action...IN the action...and on the bottom of the piano.  Being a Spinet did not want to pull the acton and managed to get most of it out.  Still more left which will require another service call and likely pulling all the keys out as I found little morsels of food underneath the 3 keys I pulled to get the food out.Tuning after the next service call. Pulled one original key screw out and found it was bent in the middle...installed that way at the Factory in 1963 per my dating of the SN.  More quality workmanship from Wullitzer!  My customer got her camera out and I took a good number of photos which she'll send me and then I'll share with all of you. I love this job and thought I'd share my morning with you all.  Last known tuning was in June 1994.

          She lives in the country and I suspect this happens all the time...but my first encounter with rodents who like pianos!

          All for now.

          Regards as always.

          Marc P. Mailhot
          Marco Polo Music
          Westbrook, Maine USA

          The Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make...

          The Beatles/Abbey Road (The End)...1969

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