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<DIV><FONT size=2>If you can fit in the tutu, your good to go.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pianotune05@comcast.net
href="mailto:pianotune05@comcast.net">pianotune05</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:37 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Piano gets its
revenge...</DIV>
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<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?
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<A title=fmurray@cruzio.com href="mailto:fmurray@cruzio.com">Fenton
Murray</A> </DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
<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>