<html><body> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>My only mishap in my tuning career so far was a brused up knee when I tripped over and knoced over a bench recently.  The area was dark and I was all nervous being a new tuner etc.  It was a Young Chang piano bench, well the piano was anyway. :)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca> <BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5296.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>1 Broken nose, and two black eyes, from a tilter mishap. Strap it in place now.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>2 Toe broken in three places, when I wasn't careful about moving a piano, with one hand, on a carpet, and the wheel didn't swivel, so it tipped.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Caused me to be limping at the Dearborn convention. :-(</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Takes something like this to happen, say every 10 years, so we don't get too complacent.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fmurray@cruzio.com href="mailto:fmurray@cruzio.com">Fenton Murray</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:53 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Piano gets its revenge...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I still limp once in a while from 3 broken toes a piano gave me when it came off a tilter 25 years ago. If I ever see that piano again I'll show it the meaning of revenge. Ruined all chance of me becoming a ballet dancer.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:piannaman@aol.com">piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:20 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Piano gets its revenge...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <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>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> <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></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>