Plate for sale?

[Ron Nossaman]

>    ya know those little candle powered carousels that come out at Christmas?
>Well, if one of these Satan's toys happens to stick and stop turning while no
>one is looking, the candles set that pile of little dry sticks and blades on
>fire, never mind the little angel boy that is supposed to be singing as it
>goes round and round.  And then imagine a large, stuffed chair right beside
>the piano that this flaming merry-go-round from hell falls into in a shower of
>flaming sparks. 
>   By the time the seltzer was employed, the piano had lost the outer layer of
>maple lamination on the bent side, the bottom of the soundboard was scorched,
>the treble leg and over an inch of the keybed where charcoal.  The factory
>didn't want to touch it, and neither did I, so the insurance called it a total
>and I took it apart for the pieces. 
>    At the moment, the boys are swinging on the wrap-around part of the case,
>it is springy!
>Regards, 
>Ed Foote
>

Ed,

Very vivid! Ouch.

 Ron