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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sad tale Shawn. It reminds me of a piano I went to service
- the woman said it did not play - the keys would not move. I thought maybe the
keypins were so rusty the keys were frozen in place. Wrong. Squirrels - or some
other acorn-hording animal. The entire area between the keybed and the key
bottoms was stuffed solid with acorns. Fortunately, whomever put the acorns
there did not stay.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this hole subject reminds me of my first month at
Emil Fries. The director came to me one day and asked "Shawn sense you
have previous tuning and repair experience, I'm wondering if you have cleaned
a piano?" I told him that I had not and we preceded to find a donated or
trade in piano for me to clean. We had just got this Marshall and Windal
vertical in from some where and it needed a lot of work. Don told me to
try to salvage the ivories, disassemble the piano, remove the keys and call
him. I did just that. The problems started when I removed the
front panel, I thought man this thing stinks! I put on my rubber gloves
and touched the keys and boy was it full! Dog food, bird seed, cotton
and more! I went to Don, and told him this piano was not worth
cleaning. He insisted that I get the job started and he would check on
me in a while. The picture you see is after probably about 90 percent of
the unsavory stuff was removed. I found no fewer than 6 mice in this
piano. All departed thank god! Needless to say we junked the
piano. I have had a strong dislike for the brand sense that
day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>