<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Years ago I purchased a console (name forgotten) from a school.  As in your case, every hammer was broken off...and removed.  It did, however, have an incredibly gorgeous, perfect set of ivory keytops.  I've always been amazed that they survived.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Debbie</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=ronboyd_1@juno.com href="mailto:ronboyd_1@juno.com">Ron Boyd</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, February 25, 2007 12:22 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Milwaukee Public Schools</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=1>Speaking of Wurlitzer's,  last week I was given a contract to tune 26 pianos for one of the local Milwaukee high schools that will be hosting a music fest for all of the South Eastern Wisconsin schools. Most of the pianos were Wurlitzer and Everett Studio pianos that were delivered over a period of 4 days. The music director approached me Friday and asked if I would look at a couple of their own pianos that needed some work as it seemed that none of the keys worked on one of them and other problems with a couple of other pianos. Upon opening the top lid on the first piano and looking in I was horrified to see that someone had started on the bass end and worked all the way to the high treble end breaking every one of the hammers off!! As if that wasn't good enough they smashed down all of the back checks breaking most of the wippens! She asked if it was repairable and I told her that it would cost more to repair it than it was worth. That's not all!! I found several more pianos that had all of the sharp key tops broken off and more broken hammers! I just can't understand why someone would destroy pianos like that! These are high school kids that should know better!! The janitors wound up screwing down all of the lids on their school pianos along with installing ugly hasps with padlocks on the fallboards. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=1>Does anyone on this list have a horror story to share like this one??</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=1>Ron Boyd Wisconsin Chapter #532</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>