<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had one a couple of weeks ago... The chief complaint in this art deco, painted, no name spinet, was that when he played anywhere around middle C, 3 notes either side of middle C also played at the same time. Turns out a 4d galvanized nail was stuck down by the elbows and was laying across about 6 notes in all. Worked like a gang bar for all the notes. It took long tweezers and a bit of patience to work it down to the end where I could remove the nail. :-)<div><br></div><div>Rob McCall</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 18, 2011, at 20:32 , <a href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta charset="US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name="GENERATOR"> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <div> <div>Greetings,</div> <div> </div> <div>          In this work, its usually something logical like that. As you get more experience, confidence grows and one actually looks forward to 'saving the day' for a customer. Keep up the good work. I remember being worried about 5 keys in a spinet that were stuck. Here I found a small plastic toy rhinocerous - tusks and all  - fallen down behind the sticker wires, it looked like he was in a cage at the zoo. </div> <div> </div> <div>Julia Gottshall,</div> <div>Reading, PA</div> <div> </div> <div>In a message dated 10/18/2011 7:39:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, <a href="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com">pianotune05@hotmail.com</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial" size="3">Hi John & Julia,</font><br><font face="Arial" size="3">It turns out it was just a pencil lying in such a way that it was causing the key to bind. I had to take the key cover off and reach in a little and there it was waiting for someone to set it free. lol I thought about it this morning and read about the sostenuto, and thought the tab could have been grabing the blade. I was so glad I didn't have to spend time taking the piano apart because my wife was on a tight schedule to get back to pick the kids up. It was a 45 minute drive each way.  I'm glad that pencil saved the day. lol</font><br><font face="Arial" size="3">Marshall</font></blockquote></div> <div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>