Marcel -- Newport (with relief) yields pride of place to the Orford Art Center. I never had to put a piano action inside a car windshield, but it's good to know the trick. I've found dead mice and live moths, but never had a mouse look back at me. >>Susan, >> >> Thanks. I imagine most of us enjoy hearing a true story about something >>like that. At least as long as it doesn't happen to us. :-) >> >>Avery >> >>>All right, Avery, just didn't know if anyone would be interested. >> >I might be able to beat that one. While tuning an upright piano at the >Orford Art Center one summer about 10 years ago (when pianos were still in >outside little cabins), I saw the mouse walking on the hammer heads. It was >just looking at me and probably wondering what the hell I was doing. Well it >didn't die of old age! :-) The funny thing is that after it died, I started >to inspect the keybed and found about 6 of it's kids in there. They were >more lucky. I just threw them out of the piano and the cabin. My two >daughters were with me at that time and they still talk about it. I saw a >lot of these situations. These little animals would start coming into pianos >usually in the middle of August just for nesting. They really liked the >hammer rest felt and the damper felts. Frotunately, The Art Center had a new >building built and now the pianos are better protected. The old cabins were >so damp on rainy days that we had to take out actions and put them in the >car's windshield under the sun to make them playable again in about 1/2 hre. > >Marcel Carey, RPT > > > Susan Kline skline@proaxis.com P.O. Box 1651, Philomath, OR 97370 "If you don't get all you want, think of all you don't get that you don't want."
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