<div>Boy, I've worked on some pianos that were FULL of mouse excrement, little pellets laying all over the keysticks which were yellowed with urine, but I'd have walked away from that one.  </div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Sivak</div> <div>Chicago<BR><BR><B><I>Frank Emerson <pianoguru@earthlink.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Tom Sivak wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV>>Of course, on the down side, they often have to work in excrement, and although we may occasionally refer to an old >Gulbransen as a POS, they LITERALLY have to work with P'sOS on a daily basis!  (That's worth a few bucks, I'd say!)</DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Then there was the time that I worked on an old upright in the basement rec. room of a college dormitory.  The keyboard was smeared with excrement from one end to the other.  In this case, I as a piano tech had to LITERALLY work with P'sOS.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Frank Emerson</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>