[pianotech] things in pianos

Conrad Hoffsommer choffsommer at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 14 15:48:58 MST 2010








Subject: [pianotech] things in pianos








Hi Conrad,

 The cigarette butts ashes and church program were not in the same piano were they?  lol 

Marshall



No, they weren't.  One cigarette ash incident was when I went on a warranty call about a bad finish - "blemishes".

It was an oriental grand with a white polyester finish.  There were black blemishes on the music shelf in a strange pattern. Absolutely smooth surface.  As I slid the shelf out of the piano to get a better look, I immediately saw what was most likely the reason.  There, sitting on the bridge in the top section was a nice, big cigar ash.  The blemishes made a lot of sense if you imagined a full, round ashtray in the middle of them. 

I called in the owner to see what I'd found, saying that I doubted that the damage would be covered under warranty.  When he saw the cigar ash, he immediately started conjecturing what he would do to his son, who had thrown a party over the previous weekend...

I never went back, so I don't know the fate of the son.

Conrad
 		 	   		  
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