My favorite was an object I encountered in a church in San Francisco while removing about 3 inches of dust and lint from inside the lowest regions of an upright. I gingerly grasped clumps and dropped them into a garbage can. When I felt something solid, I shook the dust off and saw a butcher knife. I took it home, cleaned off the corrosion, sterilized it, and spent about an hour getting it sharp. I have never seen such thin, hard, flexible steel. It's an old Henckels 8" knife and is easily our best knife. My take on its history: a murder weapon dropped into a church piano where it would never be found! --John Ashcraft On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Paul T Williams < pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > I hope you got a tip LOL; but then again, the joy in a customers face is > worth a million bucks, eh? > > Paul > > > From: "David Lawson" <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au> To: < > pianotech at ptg.org> Date: 12/16/2010 04:36 PM Subject: [pianotech] Item > found inside pianos > ------------------------------ > > > > Yesterday I pulled the stack out of an old Playotone player ready for > tuning and discovered a single diamond resting on the keyboard. The lady of > the house came into the room and I asked her to hold out her hand. I then > placed the gem into her hand, and the tears began to fall. She had lost the > diamond out of her engagement ring two years before, and had no idea where > it had gone. One happy customer I can tell you. > On another occasion I discovered a sapphire ring inside a grand which had > been lost by 'Gran' who thought it had gone out with the garbage. > Has anyone else found interesting items when tuning? > David Lawson OZ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101216/5841a659/attachment.htm>
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