<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">alan forsyth</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@forsythalan.wanadoo.co.uk">alan@forsythalan.wanadoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div lang="EN-US" bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="blue" link="blue"> <div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="q"> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"By the way, the piano was REALLY out of tune!  =)"</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font> </p></span> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Well no wonder; you're supposed to use an A forklift to raise a piano!</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font> </p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">AF</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p></font></strong></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><span class="q"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><b>From:</b> <a title="michelle@smithpianoservice.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:michelle@smithpianoservice.com" target="_blank"> Michelle Smith</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">'Pianotech List'</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:17 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> There's more than one way to move a piano</div> <div><br> </div></span> <div><span class="e" id="q_1151f7c178e71a96_4"> <div> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi all.  I hope you enjoy the pictures.  This was a new customer I visited today.  As you can tell, we Texans use our tractors for everything.  </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">By the way, the piano was REALLY out of tune!  =)</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Have a great day.</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Michelle Smith</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Smith Piano Service</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bastrop</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> , Texas</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p></div></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div> <div>Hi Michelle,</div> <div>I'm in farm country and am very familiar with tractors, end loaders, bobcats and sundry other pieces of machinery being used to move pianos. The one that sticks in my mind though was the upright I was almost finished doing a 1/2 tone pitch raise on when the husband came in from the barn for his morning break. He asked if it was going to be OK then, I said yes it seemed to be tuning up just fine. He said they had been worried when it rolled out of the pickup coming up the rise in the road(paved)and rolled over on it's top. I told him I had looked it over before starting and saw no structural problems. He said it was hard to reload it being wet and all, right after it fell out there was a 20 minute coudburst! </div> <div>If I'd known it I wouldn't have touched it but it tuned up fine I tune it about twice a year and it's doing OK!<br><br clear="all">Mike<br>-- <br>Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. <br>- Denis Waitley<br><br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>