Another way to anticipate the inevitable is to tie a string securely around a pencil and secure the other end to, e.g., a bass string by a tuning pin. The pencil is less likely to walk away from the piano, too. Tom Cole Marcel Carey wrote: > What I like to do is theach them what to do BEFORE the pencil gets > into the action cavity. I show them how it happens. Usually the pencil > will get between the fall board and the stretcher; it's hard to get so > they drop the fall board and the pencil goes downhill in the piano. I > show them and then tell them to push on the fallboard while they bring > the pencil to either the left or right side so that when it's wedged > between their finger and the side it can be easily removed. I also ask > them to show their children. The customer is usually very glad to > learn how to prevent these things. > > Marcel Carey > > Sherbrooke, QC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:50:50 -0600 > From: paul at bruesch.net > To: ilvey at sbcglobal.net; pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] minimum service charge > > but only with the warning that they can scratch or get it wedged... > which, in my experience, usually results in "Oh, we'll just let you do > it." (or better or worse!) > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:46 PM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net > <mailto:ilvey at sbcglobal.net>> wrote: > > That sounds like a plan...sometimes you can show them how to > remove the fallboard on a Yamaha etc... > > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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