Soundboard Removal w/ alcohol, BUT NOT ON KEYS !!!!

[gordon stelter]

Dear Mr. Avery, Mr. Ross, et all.
    Ridiculing people for being clean is crude, and
says nothing good about yourselves.
     Besides making pianos sound and play as well as I
can, I like to make them look and smell as clean, if
possible, as the day they left the factory.
     There is nothing wrong with that. It is
commendable.
    Additionally, as a professional performer, I can
tell you that it is much harder to get into a
"reverie" conducive to beautiful music if you have
greasy, smelly, slimy crap on your fingers, of
mysterious origin, left there by the last user.
    As I would not hand a  person a Kleenex(TM) I had
just sneezed into, neither will I sell them a piano
with black scum on the sides of the keys. It is simple
decency.
    A concept you should perhaps acquaint yourself
with.
     Gordon

--- Avery Todd <avery1@houston.rr.com> wrote:

> Gordon,
> 
> At 06:02 PM 8/27/05, you wrote:
> >Dear John,
> >     "Feces" was both specific and generic. Yes,
> where
> >I live the slimy black scum on the wooden sides of
> the
> >keys can be 1/16 " thick.
> 
> And why do you think it's feces???
> 
> >     Since you do not consider it a threat, may I
> >suggest that you lick it off ?
> >      Might be tasty and nutritious!
> 
> Have you tried it?
> 
> >      Thump
> >
> >P.S. Considering that some of the pianos I service
> >come from houses that, until recently, had no
> indoor
> >plumbing, the composition of this scum is pretty
> >evident.
> 
> I just don't understand how you know/think this!
> 
> >Also because even about half of the COLLEGE
> >students here don't wash their hands after wiping
> >their asses ( or before playing the pianos in the
> >university practice rooms, which emit a tangible
> odor)
> >one can only imagine the habits of the
> >less-educated.
> 
> One can only wonder how you actually know this?????
> If it's "actually" true, I think I'd find a new
> venue to
> work in!!!!!
> 
> I know I'll probably get "slammed" for this, but
> damn........
> 
> Avery
> 
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