<WBR>How about a dead bird in a grand piano, at the horn. Very expensive house in an exclusive neighborhood. The piano was in the front living room, very formal, hardly used by anyone. When I showed it to the customer, she told me that for years they wondered what the bad smell was in that room, and where it came from. How long, I asked. About 10 years. <br> <br> <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br> Piano Tuner/Technician<br> Honolulu, HI<br> Author of <br> The Business of Piano Tuning<br> available from Potter Press<br> www.pianotuning.com</div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Martin Wisenbaker <mbjwisenbaker@juno.com><br> To: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 6:16 am<br> Subject: Re: Treasures in pianos<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_0_703e3df1-c5b7-4ae6-a063-ecd6033e39e5 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>The most exciting thing I have found in a piano was a nest of live mice. It caused some excitement with the lady of the house and her teen aged daughter. Martin Wisenbaker, RPT Houston, Texas </TT></PRE></div> <div id='u8CA484A810AB6A6-7FC-5191' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Supercharge your AIM. Get the <A title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</A> for your browser.</FONT> </div>