On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu>wrote: > Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote: > >> I was doing a repair and had all my felt mute sitting out. Well, three >> dachshunds took them and hid them all over the house. It took the owner and >> I about 1/2 hour to locate all of them. That was the last time I left my bag >> open with animals in the house. >> >> Al >> >> > I feel your pain. I've had similar experiences, but the last time I had a > curious cat encounter was really different. > > I thought I had an attentive apprentice. Sitting on a chair a few feet > away, watching everything I did, especially to the spinning propeller of my > laptop RCT. (~50¢ pitch raise) Only near the end of the tuning did it get up > on the keys to look more closely into the console's action. I played a few > notes in the bass to help it understand why NOT to put it's hands in the > action, and it slowly got down and went into the kitchen. > > Very mellow. > > -- > Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician > Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 > 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 > > I have had dogs run off or begin chewing on things that were glued or pasted, apparantly the glue(hide) and the paste whatever they used, smelled and tasted good to them. I have a small pasteboard box with some parts in it and some pieces of pasteboard for shims. I also carry a few old upright parts, a hammer butt w/flange, etc. as something to show the customer when I'm explaining certain procedures. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090302/6b79ef6d/attachment.html>
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