[pianotech] Interesting Find

[David Ilvedson]

That's way more than we wanted to know...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Gerald Groot" <tunerboy3 at comcast.net>
To: kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net; pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/5/2010 4:41:12 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting Find


>Ever find puke inside of a piano?  I did.  Someone had a little bit to much
>to drink.   I came, saw what I was in for, I left.  No way could I clean
>that up.  I made them call someone else.  That is, unless they wanted more
>puke added to it as I attempted to clean it up..  Still smelled too.  That
>one was FREEEEEEEEE! 

> 

>Jer Groot 

> 

>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Ken & Pat Gerler
>Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:34 PM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting Find

> 

>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 <mailto:mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>  

>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

>--- On Thu, 2/4/10, pianotech-request at ptg.org <pianotech-request at ptg.org>
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>Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 2:00 PM

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