I will admit to writing in pianos. 'Twas a warning to any other tuner who would try to tune some school pianos. (blonde S&C consoles) Virtually none of the pins in the bass section would hold. I (in chalk) marked big arrows on the top of the pinblock showing the range of the problem and designated them Lautrec pins. When they built a new school and they emptied out the old, those pianos somehow disappeared... oh darn. Conrad Hoffsommer BTW, that might have been an old sailor's parrot, (perhaps deceased parent?) before the current piano owner was blessed with it. Most sailors I knew could outdo any parrot... ;-} From: tunerboy3 at comcast.net To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:32:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuner's marks/cards I remember finding a talking parrot (is that whay the are called?) in a customer's home that could cuss up a storm! I wound up laughing so hard at it that I could hardly tune the piano. Luckily for me, nobody was home at the time. Man, the words that bird knew! You know what went on in THAT house when I wasn't there! From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Brian Trout Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:23 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuner's marks/cards > From: dianepianotuner at msn.com > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:13:18 -0800 > Subject: [pianotech] Tuner's marks/cards > > > ...snip... > The best thing I ever saw written inside a piano—with a giant Sharpie—were the words, scrawled all over the keybed; “I love you! I love you! I love you!” Some kind of interesting story behind that one!?! > > Diane Hofstetter I would love to hear the story behind that one!!! Could it be someone (a tech maybe?) that gave the piano to his sweetheart? A lonely shop guy hoping a lady tuner out there would search him out and they'd live happily ever after? If pianos could talk, what stories they'd tell... Probably lots of boring ones, but occasionally, some really juicy stuff. :-) Brian Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 100120-0, 01/20/2010 Tested on: 1/20/2010 8:32:19 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100120/06d30017/attachment.htm>
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