<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>I restored a 1927 Ampico grand for a lady in 1977, that had been given to her as a wedding gift in 1937. She told us that her engagement ring might be in it, dropped during the wedding reception. We found it ( with a diamond about the size of a pea, if I correctly remember) and returned it. But the "funnest" thing I&#39;ve found were some nickels in the bottom of an early Peerless coin piano (from the 1890&#39;s) that were in excellent condition. And the nicest were a rosewood handled Hale hammer and wire bender, and a tuning fork, in the bench of a 1920&#39;s "M".</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Terry Farrell &lt;mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Re: [pianotech] pulley key...                            <br>
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                            Thu, Sep 27, 2012 1:30:15 PM                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">You're lucky. All I ever find are mutes - and always more worn/aged than the ones I loose.......&nbsp; :-(<BR><BR>But I did find an envelope with several hundred dollars in it one time.&nbsp; :-)<BR><BR>Terry Farrell<BR><BR>On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:<BR><BR>&gt; On 9/27/2012 3:37 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:<BR>&gt;&gt; Yeah.&nbsp; I found an action bracket bolt in the bottom of this piano, too.<BR>&gt;&gt; It's not the first time I've found a little extra something from the<BR>&gt;&gt; factory in the bottom of a piano, but the pianos with "extras" are<BR>&gt;&gt; usually new.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; I found a stringing crank in one, and in another, my favorite pliers I'd lost a couple of years ago.<BR>&gt; Ron N<BR><BR></td>
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