[pianotech] Strange Customer Call

[Ken Knapp]

It's the jerky boys.

Ken


paul bruesch wrote:
> Parental Language Warning...
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYl6KM70sL4&watch_response 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYl6KM70sL4&watch_response>
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> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca 
> <mailto:jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>> wrote:
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>     *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 <mailto:m_spreeman at hotmail.com>
>         *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto: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 <http://www.RavenscroftPianos.com>
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