Maybe he got an "ash" whipping. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Conrad Hoffsommer Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:49 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] things in pianos 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100214/b80f7c27/attachment.htm>
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