This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ... as in "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Urgent call from a church (good client, Baldwin grand): "There is a = terrible rattle in the piano. We really need Mr. Barnard up here this = week." I get the message too late to call last night and we are expecting big = snow tonight and tomorrow so "this week" is about over. I rearrange = schedules and drive the half-hour trip to the church.=20 "What rattle?" says I. After much trial and error the young music pastor = is finally able to make a discernable rattle by wanging E5 pretty hard. = "There!" he says in triumph. I tell him to put his hand around the small = lid prop and lid prop hinge. WANG! No rattle. Someone else complained about that rattle years ago because there was a = small piece of brown action cloth glued where the bumper on the small = prop hits the big prop ... but it had come loose. "Do you have a guest artist this week or a special musical production?" = I ask, meaning "What was the big emergency, Dude?" (Sorry, Rev. Dude) = "No," says he, I just noticed it while practicing something yesterday. Must ... control ... tuning ... hammer .... of ... death ... So the tuning was due in February. I got an early tuning out of it. It = was about 8 cents flat of their organ which is about 3 cents sharp. So I = charged for a pitch correction. (Yeah, yeah, I know but I blew most of a = day for this.) The room was very warm. "Oh," says the pastor, "we are heating with a = new wood-burning furnace and haven't figured out how to regulate it very = well." Bingo, Ka-ching: Sold them a Dampp-Chaser. Explained the danger of too-dry conditions. "Cracks can develop in = places like this." I say, pointing in the general direction of the = soundboard and bridges. Oops. What's that? The bass bridge is full of = little eyelash cracks! "That's got to be fixed!" And I explain. So ... extra travel, and a wasted, messed up day? Or sweet lemonade? More, please. Alan Barnard Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/48/78/4f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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