<GRIN> Good for you! You took off the keyslip and the fallboard while they were still attached to each other ...... Merry Christmas, Keith Susan On 12/21/2010 1:14 PM, Mr. Mac's wrote: > List, > > Went to tune this Cable Spinet piano (see image) in a Golden Corral restaurant Monday morning. > > Ooops, what do I find, a hasp and a lock restricting opening the fall board. And do I have a key … of course not. Does the restaurant have a key … no way. It is now 9AM. > > I made a phone call and discovered I would have to leave to get one of two keys available elsewhere in the city and get the job done before the restaurant doors at 11AM . Didn't want to do try making it happen, but what choice did I have. > > But wait, the lightbulb of there is another way to circumvent making that trip for the key and accomplish the task at hand. > > I ended up tuning the piano (two passes), brushed the hammer faces with a brass brush and cleaned the keys. Voila! > > Care to guess how this was could be? > > Sincerely, > > Keith McGavern, RPT >
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