most disguisting service call?

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hi Ron,



and how much are you charging for a puke job like that?
Surely more than your hourly rate...
I wonder if vomit might be used for voicing, just a quickie on a Lester spinet.
What about the smell?  Are you planning on using something for that?

Kristinn (who actually has a little touch of flu).

P.S. What kind was it?  Yellow and chunky or fair and runny?  eeechhh.. 
sorry about that. <g>

At 15:22 1.3.2001 +0000, you wrote:
>You really want to know?
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>Maybe this is like cyber road-kill, you really don't want to know, but you 
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>Well, it wasn't mice, I ran into one in an organ years ago.  Seems there 
>were a few notes that wouldn't play.  The petrified remains were stuck 
>between the contacts.  I let them pull it out!
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>Nope, it wasn't bugs.  In my 'hungrier' years I opened up a piano in a 
>basement and watched as hundreds of roaches (seemed like that many) 
>scattered.  The owner just went to get the can of spray.  I banged off a 
>stool to place my toolkit on, and went to work. (No, I didn't mean because 
>I was hungrier I was searching for an alternate, crunchy source of protein)
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>No, this was at a local college that has an afternoon community program.
>Little kids.... midwest winter..... cold and flu season.  Still wanna hear 
>about it?
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>Came home after work, my wife told me that the head guy at the college 
>just called to follow up on his email he sent.  Hmmmmm, just checked the 
>email a few hours ago, nothing new.  Now, my poor insecure mind leaps into 
>hyperwarp, just tuned the D for a recital a few days before, haven't I 
>been doing a good enough job, what is he in a rush to tell me?  Logged 
>on....BZZZZrap, bebong, bebong, "you are now connected" (extra credit to 
>name the isp)
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>"Ron, a student just threw up on one of our pianos, the teacher cleaned up 
>as much as he could.  Give me a call."
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>Well, with kids of my own, and dog and cat urping experiences under my 
>belt, I grab the bucket and head for the door.
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>Patient:  Steinway B (no they didn't use the loaner Yamaha sitting right 
>next to it)
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>Location of 'material':  right on the keys, middle C position, gravity 
>assited to seek lower ground.
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>You know how there are a couple of slots in the key bed?  Well when the 
>action is pulled, it packs any 'material' deeply into those 
>slots.  Ugh.  Of course paper, carboard and felt is absorbant, so all 
>those pesky punchings will have to go..................one real late night....
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>Even with the rubber gloves I took an extra long shower that night. :)
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>Ron Koval
>Chicagoland
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>Looking forward to the solo and ensemble 'bionic' tuning nights this month.
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