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> 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:
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>> 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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> From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett at earthlink.net>
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
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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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>> [Original Message]
>> From: <pianotech-request at ptg.org>
>> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Date: 12/16/2010 11:00:28 AM
>> Subject: pianotech Digest, Vol 26, Issue 64
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>> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:01:57 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Bill Fritz <pianofritz50 at aol.com>
>> To: pianotech at ptg.org
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>> For more info on mint marks, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint "Current Facilities"
>>
>> and for more on the 1943 steel cent, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent
>>
>> Bill Fritz
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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:
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>> 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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> 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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> 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
>
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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
>
>
>
> 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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> 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
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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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