[CAUT] "we did something wrong"

[David Ilvedson]

Is that Santa in civvies on the left?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Willem Blees" <wblees at bama.ua.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 12/21/2006 10:33:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] "we did something wrong"


>I'm new to this. Maybe the picture will come through this time

>Quoting Willem Blees <wblees at bama.ua.edu>:

>> So here I am, sitting in my lazy boy, enjoying a cup of coffee while
>>
>> reading the morning paper, when my cell phone rings. It's one of the
>> 
>> cleaning ladies at school. "Wim, this is Sherry, I think we did 
>> something wrong. We were trying to move the piano back in the Choral
>> 
>> room,and the legs came off". I'll be right there, I said. 
>> 
>> Sure enough, the 9' Stienway was sitting at an angle supported only
>> be 
>> the lyre. They had taken the piano out of the Choral room and put it
>> in 
>> the hall way, to wax the floor. They had done this many times. But
>> this 
>> time, when they tried to run the truck over the door jam, the jegs
>> just 
>> broke off. (see attached picture)
>> 
>> I got the university movers (about 10 of them) to come and pick the 
>> piano up and sit it on it's side. A nice project to start the new
>> year. 
>> 
>> Willem Blees, RPT
>> Piano Tuner/Technician
>> School of Music
>> University of Alabama
>> Tuscaloosa, AL USA
>> 


>Willem Blees, RPT
>Piano Tuner/Technician
>School of Music
>University of Alabama
>Tuscaloosa, AL USA