[pianotech] Item found inside pianos

[John Ashcraft]

My favorite was an object I encountered in a church in San Francisco while
removing about 3 inches of dust and lint from inside the lowest regions of
an upright. I gingerly grasped clumps and dropped them into a garbage can.
When I felt something solid, I shook the dust off and saw a butcher knife. I
took it home, cleaned off the corrosion, sterilized it, and spent about an
hour getting it sharp. I have never seen such thin, hard, flexible steel.
It's an old Henckels 8" knife and is easily our best knife.
My take on its history: a murder weapon dropped into a church piano where it
would never be found!
--John Ashcraft

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

> I hope you got a tip LOL; but then again, the joy in a customers face is
> worth a million bucks, eh?
>
> Paul
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>  From: "David Lawson" <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au> To: <
> pianotech at ptg.org> Date: 12/16/2010 04:36 PM Subject: [pianotech] Item
> found inside pianos
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> Yesterday I pulled the stack out of an old Playotone player ready for
> tuning and discovered a single diamond resting on the keyboard. The lady of
> the house came into the room and I asked her to hold out her hand. I then
> placed the gem into her hand, and the tears began to fall. She had lost the
> diamond out of her engagement ring two years before, and had no idea where
> it had gone. One happy customer I can tell you.
> On another occasion I discovered a sapphire ring inside a grand which had
> been lost by 'Gran' who thought it had gone out with the garbage.
> Has anyone else found interesting items when tuning?
> David Lawson OZ
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