On the 20th day of December

[stuka at mindspring.com]

There's got to be a way to cram in a delaminated pinblock, sseveral loose pins, and a cracked/broken plate...

 
-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
>Sent: Dec 19, 2007 6:23 PM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: On the 20th day of December
>
>T minus 5 and counting --
>
>On the 20th day of December a piano came to me
>
>   With twenty beckets a-buckling
>   Nineteen shanks a-squiggling
>   Eighteen keys a-knocking
>   Seventeen barren backchecks
>   Sixteen pins a-pommelled
>   Fifteen butts a-bounding
>   Fourteen wobbly whippens
>   Thirteen coins a-clinking,
>   Twelve tubby bass strings,
>   Eleven  jacks a-jumping,
>   Ten grungy grommets,
>   Nine brittle bridles,
>   Eight damaged dampers,
>   Seven fractured flanges,
>   Six errant elbows,
>   Five broken strings !
>   Four coats of paint,
>   Three warped posts,
>   Two pedals bent,
>   From a Parson who wants it fixed free !
>
>Cheers
>RicB