This One's for Carl, was RE: Piano poltergeists?

[Alan Barnard]

Eggzactly! The yoke's on me but I'll capon trying.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Alan Barnard <tune4u@earthlink.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 02/25/2006 4:54:17 PM
> Subject: This One's for Carl, was RE: Piano poltergeists?
>
> Had an ancient Lyon & Healy grand piano stored for many years in an old,
> long unused chicken coop. 
>
> Now the owner insists hears clucking, cackling, scratching, and crowing
> sounds coming from the piano. 
>
> He called in a spirtualist, but she kept laughing at him; he lost his cool
> and smacked her! Of course, he was arrested for striking a happy medium. 
>
> They also arrested her because she was a known fraud: People felt sorry
for
> her because she was a dwarf, so she easily took advantage of them. 
>
> They sentenced her to 90 days in jail, but she escaped. The next day's
> headlines read: "Small Medium at Large." 
>
> Anyway, I checked it myself and, sure enough, the piano has a serious case
> of poultrygeists. 
>
> I tried telling them to get the flock out of there but they wouldn't. So I
> called in Jack LaLane to exercise them ... 
>
> Alan Barnard
> Salem, Missouri
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
> > To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: 02/25/2006 1:30:52 PM
> > Subject: Piano poltergeists?
> >
> >    I tend 3 pianos in public places. 2 Steinways and a
> > big old Chickering. Over the last month, some
> > "Guerilla-interior-decorator" has been putting the
> > lids down, the music desk up ( on the Chickereing,
> > very fragile  roseweood fretwork )then folding the
> > front part of the lid over the upraised music desk, so
> > the desk is holding it open at an angle! GRRRRRRRRRRR!
> > Besides looking profoundly stupid, it is damaging the
> > desks. Is this obnoxious behavior widespread, or
> > something from one of those repulsive
> > interior-decorator shows, that has suddenly infected
> > the public ?
> >      Thump
> >
> > P.S. I suspect that whoever does this also owns a
> > Pekingese.
>
>
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