<html><head><base href="x-msg://20/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Marshall,<div> </div><div>It's been my experience with institutional pianos that the harder you try to keep them out of the piano cavity, the more determined some people are to get in.  One client I had with 80 pianos (20 were grands) requested that I lock all the upright pianos.  I started finding busted locks, non-technician signatures and dates, candy wrappers and even a handful of spaghetti (no sauce) inside the uprights.  I've notice that the Everett uprights that require the allen wrench to open, frequently have those brackets damaged by people trying to pry them up.  I don't get it.  Is it a "forbidden fruit" thing or just curiosity?</div><div> </div><div>Laura</div><div> <div><div>On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Marshall Gisondi wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">Hi William, Laura, Todd and anyone else who responded about the piano keys.   Thanks so much.  It looks like I 'm going to get some keys soon.     The lid is what was locked.  I could play the piano but couldn't unlock it in order to lift the lid.  That's what I found odd.  I guess they were trying to protect it from vandelism or part of it anyway lol.   I rebid for another school district last year and someone else bid lower I guess because I didn'tget it, but I kept the piano key which unlocked the black lock that goes over the key cover.  Is this key universal to these types of locks or was it for a certain brand of lock that the school district use on their pianos? It's a small brass color key that worked on all of their piano key cover locks.  Thanks again  Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service <a href="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com">pianotune05@hotmail.com</a> 215-510-9400 <a href="http://www.phillytuner.com/" target="_blank">www.phillytuner.com</a>  Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind <a href="http://www.pianotuningschool.org/" target="_blank">www.pianotuningschool.org</a> Vancouver, WA </div></div></blockquote></div> </div></body></html>