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<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>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>It's cool to see old dates and tuners who used to sign the plate in old uprights. The best one I saw was an old upright painted white and inside on the green plate was a techs name and dated 1909, Nome Alaska! It either had to be in a bar or missionary. What else could have been there in those days?</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>Various coins, of course, including a 1913, 10 shilling, silver coin from India.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>Dog food, mice nests, little skeletons, and palmetto bug carasses and the like in keybeds.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>A miniature ceramic skunk.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>A business card with a phone number: 451-L</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>A tiny thank you note from one neighbor to another, from April 1944 with a 'Win the War' .03 Victory stamp. It was sent from 168 Peachtree Circle to 1382 Peachtree Street, same city.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>In a summer home, half the fringe from the oriental carpet made a nice nest among the tracker bar tubing in an upright player.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>One of the best finds was starting a rebuild on a Cornish reed organ on April 11, 1996 and inside finding the hand written date from a previous service, April 11, 1906!</FONT> <br>
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