Treasures in pianos

[Israel Stein]

At 06:28 AM 2/28/2008, Paul T. Williams wrote:


>The coolest things I found in a piano was a 1905 Canadian penny (big 
>like a 50 cent piece and brass, I think) and a liberty dime.  pw

Then there are the tear-jerkers. One time inside an old upright 
belonging to an elderly lady I found an old photograph of a beautiful 
young woman (obviously herself years ago) with a man who appeared to 
be a "significant other". Or perhaps the "love interest of the 
moment"? Who knows. But she became visibly emotional when she saw it...

Sometimes the tears (of frustration?) are mine.There's the Stieff 
grand that I couldn't get the action out of for a long time - it just 
wouldn't move. I don't remember how I finally got it out - but it 
turned out that someone dropped a bunch of saltwater taffy into the 
keybed (in the treble, where there is a space between the strings and 
the rim). It melted and glued the keyframe to the keybed... Took a 
long time to scrape it all off..

Israel Stein


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