Ice Cream Spill

[Jon Page]

You lucked out.      How about this one.
A high school, a Kawai grand, outside doors (near piano) are flung open.
Assailents throw eggs at students opening doors, eggs miss students.
Hit fallboard.  Not a pretty site. Especially after a few days.
Jon Page
Cape Cod. Mass
jpage@capecod.net
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At 03:31 PM 11/21/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>Here is one I want to pass on.
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>I went to a good client's house for the 6 month service of a Yamaha
>grand (one of the imported "built for Japan" pianos).
>
>This lady is a very nice person and we have had good talks about pitch
>and other musical topics. She has also been pretty concerned about the
>quality of the piano and has me check the fine soundboard cracks each
>visit to see if they have gotten bigger. She has asked many questions
>about the service of her piano.
>
>So, this visit I was not surprised when she said, "Lately, there is a
>weird sound when the kids play". I tried to get her to show me which
>notes and which weird sound. She just asked me to keep it in mind
>while I tuned the piano.
>
>I opened the lid and started strip muting, looked down the plate
>(around where C5 is tied) and saw a spilled small cup of ice cream,
>with the fork laying in the spill.
>
>I called to her and said that this would not cause a weird sound, but
>was something that did not belong in the piano. I keep getting tools
>and then she said something like "I got you" and showed me the fake
>spill. We had a good laugh and talked about it for awhile.
>
>This is a first for me and it really made my day. The whole
>piano/music is so good for your soul and so sophisticated/uppity
>notion got poked at.
>
>A good laugh.
>Ken Hale, RPT
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