Milwaukee Public Schools

[Robin Blankenship]

Conrad,

Did you have occasion to go to Gitmo and see that piano in the chapel?? I 
was there as leader of a small Navy Band Memphis group in about '85. We got 
to all the clubs on base but not to the chapel, LOL. That place does tend to 
make one go a bit off center. Pretty creepy, I thought.

Were you able to help the glue besodden piano??

Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: Milwaukee Public Schools


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