I thought I found a pocket watch once, but when I opened the face it was a
compass. The owner of the piano told me that his great uncle had brought it
over on a ship from Ireland in the early 1900s.
Cheers,
Bruce Gibson
Saskatoon, Canada
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:17:10 -0800
From: John Ashcraft <jaashcraft at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] OT Doubloons
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Back in the days when we children played with mercury, we noted that if you
rubbed a ball of mercury onto a Mercury dime, it looked really shiny... for
a while. When the mercury oxidized, it got dull and it became more
dangerous, but we all survived unscathed. For a good look at mercury
toxicity, see
http://corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Mercury-toxicology.htm
--John Ashcraft, RPT
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:
> I thought earlier dimes were made from silver, not mercury. I'd think
> that'd be kinda dangerous, wouldn't it?
> ;-P
> AnOn
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tom Rhea, Jr. <rheapiano at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> You can ignore the dimes and quarters before 1964; they're the clad ones.
>> All the silver coins were 1963 and earlier. All the buffalo nickels are
>> relatively valuable as are the mercury dimes.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:32:24 -0800
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett at earthlink.net>
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Personally, I'd rather find a 1943 Copper!<G>
Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain of the Tool Police
Squares R I
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:14:49 -0600
From: Daniel Carlton <danielcarltondesign at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Key Balancing
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On Dec 15, 2010, at 6:55 AM, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
> A Cable spinet this morning, was a semitone low, and had the
> compulsory non-repeating C-8, so I fixed both. I've done this to
> dozens, if not hundreds of small pianos (mostly Baldwins, it seems
> [the key, that is]), and it's the only thing I've found that is
> reliable. Takes about equal amounts of time to disassemble and
> reassemble as to do the whittling. This is why the bottom of my tool
> box has always had giant shavings of one sort or another in it since
> day one.
>
> Ron N
hi Ron
How do you decide how wood much to take off? Do you just do it till it
feels right?
Daniel
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:27:16 +1100
From: "David Lawson" <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:48:11 -0600
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>,
pianotech at ptg.org
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I found a buffalo nickle and a Canadiian penny from 1901 from a "free
piano" I got. It about paid for the free pizza and beer to the fellows I
got to get the piano out of the house! ha, Not really, I've still the
coins, but they might be worth something. I keep funny things i find, if
they're worth anything. These probably are worth just a few bucks. They
had been there for a very long time.
Paul
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
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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:51:46 -0600
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>,
pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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What a nice thing to find for the lady. I'm sure she was really glad to
have it back. I found a really large (what I thought, diamond at the
time) but the owner said it was cubic zerconium. very glad to get it
back, however, part of a set of earrings her daughter received as a
present.
Paul
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
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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:53:49 -0600
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>,
pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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I hope you got a tip LOL; but then again, the joy in a customers face is
worth a million bucks, eh?
Paul
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
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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:19:37 -0600
From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net>
To: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>,
pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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Wow! That is truly awesome.
Today I found two one-cent pieces (1985 and 1979) and a coupon that had
expired in 1989, which I think might have been left by the last tuner.
Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, David Lawson <
dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au> wrote:
> 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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:57:40 -0500
From: Aart in America Piano Services <aartinamerica at optonline.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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Little Plastic Army Men.
Aart
On Dec 16, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:
> What a nice thing to find for the lady. ?I'm sure she was really glad
> to have it back. ?I found a really large (what I thought, diamond at
> the time) but the owner said it was cubic zerconium. ?very glad to get
> it back, however, part of a set of earrings her daughter received as a
> present.
>
> Paul
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> 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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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:28:37 -0800
From: John Ashcraft <jaashcraft at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Cc: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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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
>
>
> 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
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:32:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Eder <reggaepass at aol.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Item found inside pianos
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An entire jigsaw puzzle ("Oh, THAT'S where it went," said the little
boy--apparently in self-defense--as he peered around the corner).
Alan Eder
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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