A sledge hammer would have left a mark on the fall board. I would have use dynamite, or at best, I would have opened up the top, and just pluck each string. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Mr. Mac's <tune-repair at allegiance.tv> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 11:15 am Subject: [pianotech] Scrunch time with no key for access List, Went to tune this Cable Spinet piano (see image) in a Golden Corral restaurant onday morning. Ooops, what do I find, a hasp and a lock restricting opening the fall board. And o I have a key … of course not. Does the restaurant have a key … no way. It is ow 9AM. I made a phone call and discovered I would have to leave to get one of two keys vailable elsewhere in the city and get the job done before the restaurant doors t 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 or the key and accomplish the task at hand. I ended up tuning the piano (two passes), brushed the hammer faces with a brass rush and cleaned the keys. Voila! Care to guess how this was could be? Sincerely, Keith McGavern, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101221/1a71a93d/attachment.htm>
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