Piano gets its revenge...

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi John,
Tilter mishaps are caused by too much clearance between the bottom board and the foot of the tilter. A precaution that I have taken is to weld a spur or toe on the foot to dig into the bottom of the piano. But bewear of the upright with oversize casters, there will be too much hight for the toe to grab hold on both the raising and lowering of the piano.
Look ma no strap!
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Ross 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:16 AM
  Subject: Re: Piano gets its revenge...


  1 Broken nose, and two black eyes, from a tilter mishap. Strap it in place now.
  2 Toe broken in three places, when I wasn't careful about moving a piano, with one hand, on a carpet, and the wheel didn't swivel, so it tipped.
  Caused me to be limping at the Dearborn convention. :-(
  Takes something like this to happen, say every 10 years, so we don't get too complacent.
  John M. Ross
  Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Fenton Murray 
    To: Pianotech List 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:53 AM
    Subject: Re: Piano gets its revenge...


    I still limp once in a while from 3 broken toes a piano gave me when it came off a tilter 25 years ago. If I ever see that piano again I'll show it the meaning of revenge. Ruined all chance of me becoming a ballet dancer.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: piannaman at aol.com 
      To: pianotech at ptg.org 
      Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:20 PM
      Subject: Piano gets its revenge...


       I've got this great customer who bought a brand now Mason and Hamlin 50 inch upright at my suggestion.  She gets her piano tuned every 6 months like clockwork.  When I tuned it back in November, the tuning hammer slipped out of my hand and the head put a big ding in the fallboard.....:-{.  Bummer.  I ponied up the cash to have a real refinisher go out and make it right.  

      Friday, I went back to tune the piano again.   Fortunately, it's getting more stable, and it didn't need a pitch raise.  I'm tuning along, thinking how great it is to be ahead of schedule, when pop goes the weasel.  String #34, A2 lower unison, broke right at the becket!  So much for being ahead of schedule...

      Mason and Hamlin is sending me a new string.  In the meantime, I tied a knot, which would be a perfectly good repair in an older piano.   But since the piano is less than a year old, the string really needs to be replaced.

      So I was thinking as I left...do pianos have poltergeists in them?  Sometimes I think they must.  I swear, there are some pianos that don't seem to like me--and I reciprocate the feeling.

      Any other piano-gets-revenge stories?

      Dave Stahl


      Dave Stahl Piano Service
      650-224-3560
      dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
      http://dstahlpiano.net/


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