<html> <body> At 06:28 AM 2/28/2008, Paul T. Williams wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The coolest things I found in a piano was a 1905 Canadian penny (big like a 50 cent piece and brass, I think) and a liberty dime.  pw </blockquote> Then there are the tear-jerkers. One time inside an old upright belonging to an elderly lady I found an old photograph of a beautiful young woman (obviously herself years ago) with a man who appeared to be a "significant other". Or perhaps the "love interest of the moment"? Who knows. But she became visibly emotional when she saw it... Sometimes the tears (of frustration?) are mine.There's the Stieff grand that I couldn't get the action out of for a long time - it just wouldn't move. I don't remember how I finally got it out - but it turned out that someone dropped a bunch of saltwater taffy into the keybed (in the treble, where there is a space between the strings and the rim). It melted and glued the keyframe to the keybed... Took a long time to scrape it all off..  Israel Stein </body> </html>