Hi Les: The kid was me! And the piano was a Henry Herbert blonde oak 40" console. I eventually became a piano tuner and the dip was 1/4 rather than 3/8. At 10:16 PM 3/24/97 -0500, you wrote: >Greetings, all! > >It probably comes as no surprise that I have a short, true story to tell >for the benefit off all who offer a vacuuming of the interior of the piano >as part of a normal service call. The story came to me from an adult who >was recollecting a personal experience from his youth. Here goes. > >When "Jim" was about eight years old and taking piano lessons, his mother >always had the piano tuned by the same gentleman, apparently because every >time he tuned the instrument, it took it apart and vacuumed it thoroughly. >By thoroughly, Jim said, that on their old upright, the tuner would re- >move the front , the fall board, AND ALL THE KEYS and then proceed to >vacuum out the dirt under the keys. All this technical stuff apparently >really impressed Jim's mother. Anyway, one day after removing the keys, >and having just started to vacuum out the dirt, the tuner had to use the >bathroom. As he left to use the facilities, he handed Jim the vacuum and >asked him to finish up. Jim was determined to do a good job, so, as he >relates it, he vacuumed up not only all the dirt, but all the felt and >paper washers around the key pins as well. When the tuner came back and >saw what jim had done he slapped him across the face and took care of the >situation as follows: He put all the keys back into the piano, without re- >placing a single one of missing regulating felt/paper washers, somehow >managed to tune the piano in record time, took his tuning fee and left. >Jim said that in response to subsequent phone calls, the tuner refused >to ever return again. The moral of the story is WATCH OUT FOR LITTLE KIDS! > >Les Smith >lessmith@buffnet.net Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" drose@dlcwest.com 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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