That reminds about early in my career as a piano technician. I was called to service this old upright. When I got to it, I could not press "any" key down. Know how players had the lever to lock the keys, I checked for something like that - none there. Dismantling the piano, I discovered mice had totally packed the space under the keys from 1 to 88 with nesting material so that no keys would go down! (piano had been in storage somewhere). Ken Gerler ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Carlton To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [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. That's a great story. It's always nice when that stuff happens. I've found two dead and mostly decayed mice or rats in two different pianos. Mostly bones but some decayed flesh too. Smelled like daisies. I also got a call from a lady that complained about not being able to play most of the keys. Under the keys were mounds and mounds of dog food, pillow stuffing and scraps of fabric. Daniel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101217/591e7c70/attachment.htm>
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