I've heard of Salsa Piano, but c'mon!

Piannaman@aol.com Piannaman@aol.com
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:23:24 EST


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We've all got tales of woe involving piano abuse in high schools.  Those 
broken hammers in the photo the other day were heart-wrenching.  I don't have 
anything that bad to report, but I did have an interesting call today.

Last year I tuned this same piano, same time of year, accompanied by a 
high-volume dress-rehearsal of "Godspell" in the auditorium that was only a swinging 
door away. Today, same junker Baldwin K(too bad, musta been a nice piano at 
one time), different cast, different play.  

A0 has a loose tuning pin, so I decide to CA it.  I started to remove the 
action, when all kinds of flotsam and jetsam dumped out on the floor, including 
about 23 hinge screws that held the front part of the lid on at one point in 
time.  I get the action about halfway out, and there it is:  a petrified 
burrito, in its entirety.   ouldn't see the salsa, though.  I guess someone went 
hungry that day....

As Bill Ballard's quote says, "may life give you interesting pianos to work 
on," or something such.  Interesting isn't always good, but it does 
occasionally offer us a chance to smile.

Dave Stahl

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