<HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dave said: "So I was thinking as I left...do pianos have poltergeists in them?  Sometimes I think they must."<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I know you are just being, ha ha, whimsical, but I will tell you, serioushly, that some pianos, for reasons that are cosmically mysterious to all known and unknown science, tend to attract the departed spirits of domesticated avian farm denizens: chickens, turkeys, and the like. (Though some actually DON'T like, e.g., vegetarians, porketarians, beefetarians, Rotarians, and people from Treestump, Arkansas.)</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mason & Hamlin pianos are particularly and perpetually prone--though the grands are obviously more "prone" then the uptights: Anyway, as I was saying, I think, M&H (which actually stands for Menagerie & Henhouse) have a pronounced propensity for prodigiously producing this "fowl-magnet" effect.<o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Yes, it's true ... it is very likely that your nefariously naughty nemesis is haunted by these perfectly peculiar poultrygeists.<o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Understandably Anonymous<o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Salem, MO<BR></P></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: piannaman@aol.com <BR>Sent: May 7, 2006 7:20 PM <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org <BR>Subject: Piano gets its revenge... <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZBODY> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana'"> <DIV> <DIV> I've got this great customer who bought a brand now Mason and Hamlin 50 inch upright at my suggestion.  She gets her piano tuned every 6 months like clockwork.  When I tuned it back in November, the tuning hammer slipped out of my hand and the head put a big ding in the fallboard.....:-{.  Bummer.  I ponied up the cash to have a real refinisher go out and make it right.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Friday, I went back to tune the piano again.   Fortunately, it's getting more stable, and it didn't need a pitch raise.  I'm tuning along, thinking how great it is to be ahead of schedule, when pop goes the weasel.  String #34, A2 lower unison, broke right at the becket!  So much for being ahead of schedule...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mason and Hamlin is sending me a new string.  In the meantime, I tied a knot, which would be a perfectly good repair in an older piano.   But since the piano is less than a year old, the string really needs to be replaced.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I swear, there are some pianos that don't seem to like me--and I reciprocate the feeling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any other piano-gets-revenge stories?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl<BR><BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<BR>dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<BR>http://dstahlpiano.net/<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY><PRE> Salem, Missouri </PRE>