[pianotech] Strange Customer Call

[David Lawson Pianos]

I once knew someone who had a violin that sounded like there was a cat stuck in it!!

Alastair
David Lawson's Pianos
Wangaratta
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Driscoll 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Strange Customer Call


  Michael,
  That prank was on a comedy album sometime in the  80's .
  After a few of these I replied something like : " I'll be right over ! My wife is in labor (or my mother just died this afternoon) but this sounds like a real emergency. Where are you? .  This ended the episode  with a click. 
  Might as well have some fun with those having fun .
  Tom D.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Michael Spreeman 
    To: pianotech at ptg.org 
    Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:03 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.  


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