Two broken bass strings in one tuning?????

[Farrell]

Hmmmm. I think I would have felt a little self-conscious huddling under a 
piano keybed with my bag of tools and spools of wire - in the middle of a 
bomb threat. I wonder how it would look to some SWAT dude who might have 
looked into the window of the room you were in...... ;-)

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> Now for the rest of the story.
>
> This piano is at a school in a small town near me.  I tune part time and
> squeezed this tuning into a busy time, but because of my rush, did not 
> bring
> along spare strings to repair this one.  I came back a few days later to
> repair the string after school.  When I arrived, I could see that all was
> not well.  The local police and the county sherrif were just arriving and
> were talking with each other outside the school
>
> There had been a bomb threat a week earlier and I feared there may have 
> been
> another.  I forged ahead, walked into the school with my bag of tools,
> greeting the officer on my way in.  He said nothing.  Once in the school I
> found the music room locked.  Visiting with the custodian (across the 
> yellow
> crime tape) I found that indeed there had been another bomb threat.  The
> students had been evacuated and if I wanted to get into the music room, I
> would have to talk to the superintendant who was going to bring the 
> students
> back to the school so they could get their things before they went home.
>
> I found out this was the second bomb threat in two days, the third in 10
> days.  The DCI was on sight investegating the one from the day before. 
> The
> superintendant let me in the music room as it had been searched and 
> secured.
> He said the faculty would be on the second floor meeting with the DCI.  I
> proceeded to tie my knot and pull the string up to pitch.  As I was doing
> this I had the awful thought of what would happen if my knot did not hold.
> A loud bang would not be looked upon kindly at this time.  Fortunately, it
> held.
>
> John Voigt