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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ya know,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this hole subject reminds me of my first month at
Emil Fries. The director came to me one day and asked "Shawn sense you
have previous tuning and repair experience, I'm wondering if you have cleaned a
piano?" I told him that I had not and we preceded to find a donated or
trade in piano for me to clean. We had just got this Marshall and Windal
vertical in from some where and it needed a lot of work. Don told me to
try to salvage the ivories, disassemble the piano, remove the keys and call
him. I did just that. The problems started when I removed the front
panel, I thought man this thing stinks! I put on my rubber gloves and
touched the keys and boy was it full! Dog food, bird seed, cotton and
more! I went to Don, and told him this piano was not worth cleaning.
He insisted that I get the job started and he would check on me in a
while. The picture you see is after probably about 90 percent of the
unsavory stuff was removed. I found no fewer than 6 mice in this
piano. All departed thank god! Needless to say we junked the
piano. I have had a strong dislike for the brand sense that
day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=keithspiano@gmail.com href="mailto:keithspiano@gmail.com">Keith
Roberts</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Rodentia</DIV>
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<DIV>Really, you should have trapped the rodent and given it a nice nome in a
Whitney spinet. How cruel. Somebody turn him in. </DIV>
<DIV>Keith Roberts</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Susan Kline <<A
href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</A>> wrote:<BR>
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have all sorts of lovely pianos and all you let him eat is a KIMBALL??
Sounds like a case for the SPCA ...
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<DIV class=Wj3C7c><BR><BR>At 05:01 PM 5/27/2008, you wrote:<BR><BR><BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Thorough
little bugger. Got everything paper or cardboard he could reach - and half
of the bridle straps and a half dozen spring loops. He likes peanut
butter, so the addition of some cotton to the mix, wrapped around the
trigger, should get him. I'll know Friday.<BR><BR>Ron
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