I have been reading this ongoing exchange. This is disgusting, and I do NOT mean the technicians who have to put up with it. I mean the people doing it and asking for it. Thumbtacks in the hammers - screws wedged between the strings - and things like that. If they want stuff like that, why don't they do something like my son and I did some 25 years ago. We recorded one of his "pieces of music" (#?!*@&!) played on an old upright with a split back and busted plate. It was a real hoot! The piano was ready for the junk pile anyway. But to take a fine piano and bugger it up by poking it full of junk is too much. Don't our universities have better things to do? Jim Ellis
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