The piano that betrayed Goldfinger

[Marcel Carey]

Oh Boy!!

This brings back memories. I saw a upright that had the back part of the
soundboard painted brown (to cover up all the cracks), the plate-pins &
strings all painted gold, and, to top it all it had new keytops made of
arborite (counter-top material) which was not white, but had the gold
sparkles. It made me laugh since I just could'nt imagine all the work to
file these.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part de Paul Mulik
> Envoyé : 28 avril 2006 13:02
> À : piano
> Objet : The piano that betrayed Goldfinger
> 
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I went to tune an old Cable grand today at a little country 
> church.  The pastor had told me over the phone the day before 
> that a ballpoint pen had recently fallen down into the 
> action, and asked if I could remove it while I was there.
> 
> When I pulled out the action, I was surprised to see that it 
> had been covered in paint -- GOLD paint.  Someone had 
> obviously re-whatevered the action at some point, and decided 
> to put a finishing touch on the job by spray-painting the 
> entire action, keys and all (except for the hammers, which 
> appeared to be original, and the new keytops).  I wonder what 
> would possess anyone to do such a thing?
> 
> Paul Mulik
> 
>