[pianotech] Scrunch time with no key for access

[Les Koltvedt]

Take the case apart...?

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:14:53 -0600
From: "Mr. Mac's" <tune-repair at allegiance.tv>
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Subject: [pianotech] Scrunch time with no key for access
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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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