<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've found were some nickels in the bottom of an early Peerless coin piano (from the 1890'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's "M".</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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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....... :-(<BR><BR>But I did find an envelope with several hundred dollars in it one time. :-)<BR><BR>Terry Farrell<BR><BR>On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:<BR><BR>> On 9/27/2012 3:37 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:<BR>>> Yeah. I found an action bracket bolt in the bottom of this piano, too.<BR>>> It's not the first time I've found a little extra something from the<BR>>> factory in the bottom of a piano, but the pianos with "extras" are<BR>>> usually new.<BR>> <BR>> I found a stringing crank in one, and in another, my favorite pliers I'd lost a couple of years ago.<BR>> Ron N<BR><BR></td>
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