[pianotech] Strange Customer Call

[paul bruesch]

Parental Language Warning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYl6KM70sL4&watch_response


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> wrote:

>  *I have had that call too.*
> *It seems to me it was a copy cat of something on the internet.*
> *Can't remember the specifics.*
> *John Ross*
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Michael Spreeman <m_spreeman at hotmail.com>
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:03 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Strange Customer Call
>
> Like most of us, I've had many unusual, strange, and interesting inquiries
> through the years. Just when I thought I had heard them all,,,,,,,
> Last week I answer the phone and am greeted with a frantic man on the
> line.  Through his horrible cell phone connection, I can make out the faint
> somewhat muted sounds of a dog whining in the background.  Immediately, the
> man begins to yell into the phone, "MY DOG GOT INTO MY PIANO AND IS STUCK IN
> THE STRINGS. MY WIFE IS FREAKING OUT, WHAT DO I DO, WHAT DO I DO?!?!"
>
> The call came in on the caller ID as "private caller", so, of course, I'm
> thinking this is a prank from the likes of Nossaman or Gravagne. When I
> attempted to ask if the piano was an upright or grand, he replied, "MY
> F#*$!%# DOG IS STUCK IN THE PIANO!!".
>
> In the midst of his cell phone breaking up, I calmly inserted, "Well, why
> don't you pull him out?" .  At which point we lost the connection. Who
> knows, maybe the dog saw the You-tube of the cat playing the piano
> and decided to one-up it by performing a little Cage or Nikoladze.
>
>
> *Michael Spreeman*
> *
> *www.RavenscroftPianos.com
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