<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I almost ruined a toe with a piano, but I wasn't tuning it or working on it. I was moving it to play it at a nursing home.  The piano ran over my shoe and left a permanent reminder where my big toe would have been if I hadn't curled it up in time.  Once in a while I d stick my hand in the shoe and poke the dent out, but it would go back in again.  Lessons learned, never buy cheap dress shoes from one of those payless type shoe stores and always move a piano away from you not toward you.  Oh and lesson three, find someone else to move it. ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>ps. when are the auditions for that ballet? </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=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 9:53 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></BODY></HTML>