1 Broken nose, and two black eyes, from a tilter mishap. Strap it in place now. 2 Toe broken in three places, when I wasn't careful about moving a piano, with one hand, on a carpet, and the wheel didn't swivel, so it tipped. Caused me to be limping at the Dearborn convention. :-( Takes something like this to happen, say every 10 years, so we don't get too complacent. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: Fenton Murray To: Pianotech List Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Piano gets its revenge... I still limp once in a while from 3 broken toes a piano gave me when it came off a tilter 25 years ago. If I ever see that piano again I'll show it the meaning of revenge. Ruined all chance of me becoming a ballet dancer. ----- Original Message ----- From: piannaman at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:20 PM Subject: Piano gets its revenge... I've got this great customer who bought a brand now Mason and Hamlin 50 inch upright at my suggestion. She gets her piano tuned every 6 months like clockwork. When I tuned it back in November, the tuning hammer slipped out of my hand and the head put a big ding in the fallboard.....:-{. Bummer. I ponied up the cash to have a real refinisher go out and make it right. Friday, I went back to tune the piano again. Fortunately, it's getting more stable, and it didn't need a pitch raise. I'm tuning along, thinking how great it is to be ahead of schedule, when pop goes the weasel. String #34, A2 lower unison, broke right at the becket! So much for being ahead of schedule... Mason and Hamlin is sending me a new string. In the meantime, I tied a knot, which would be a perfectly good repair in an older piano. But since the piano is less than a year old, the string really needs to be replaced. So I was thinking as I left...do pianos have poltergeists in them? Sometimes I think they must. I swear, there are some pianos that don't seem to like me--and I reciprocate the feeling. Any other piano-gets-revenge stories? Dave Stahl Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060509/5b5da44e/attachment.html
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