Milwaukee Public Schools

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 23:22 2/24/2007, you wrote:
>Speaking of Wurlitzer's,  last week I was given a contract to tune 
>26 pianos for one of the local Milwaukee high schools that will be 
>hosting a music fest for all of the South Eastern Wisconsin schools. 
>Most of the pianos were Wurlitzer and Everett Studio pianos that 
>were delivered over a period of 4 days. The music director 
>approached me Friday and asked if I would look at a couple of their 
>own pianos that needed some work as it seemed that none of the keys 
>worked on one of them and other problems with a couple of other 
>pianos. Upon opening the top lid on the first piano and looking in I 
>was horrified to see that someone had started on the bass end and 
>worked all the way to the high treble end breaking every one of the 
>hammers off!! As if that wasn't good enough they smashed down all of 
>the back checks breaking most of the wippens! She asked if it was 
>repairable and I told her that it would cost more to repair it than 
>it was worth. That's not all!! I found several more pianos that had 
>all of the sharp key tops broken off and more broken hammers! I just 
>can't understand why someone would destroy pianos like that! These 
>are high school kids that should know better!! The janitors wound up 
>screwing down all of the lids on their school pianos along with 
>installing ugly hasps with padlocks on the fallboards.
>
>Does anyone on this list have a horror story to share like this one??
>
>Ron Boyd Wisconsin Chapter #532


They must be the spawn of the reprobate service brats who opened up a 
console in a chapel at Guantanamo Bay, in 1976, and poured a large 
quantity of glue all up and down along the hammers. The glue drizzled 
down all the way to between the keys.

BTW, Happy Blizzard!
I'm not quite sure I want to look outside when it gets light, this 
morning.........  Chains on my pickup ain't gonna be enough.





Conrad Hoffsommer

Early to rise: early to bed;
Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.