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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>So I was thinking as I left...do pianos have poltergeists in them? Sometimes I think they must. I swear, there are some pianos that don't seem to like me--and I reciprocate the feeling.</DIV>
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<DIV>Any other piano-gets-revenge stories?</DIV>
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<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></BODY></HTML>