Piano gets its revenge...

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My only mishap in my tuning career so far was a brused up knee when I tripped over and knoced over a bench recently.  The area was dark and I was all nervous being a new tuner etc.  It was a Young Chang piano bench, well the piano was anyway. :)
Marshall

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From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> 

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.
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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/
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