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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Terry Farrell:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You said:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>"And luck was with me."</DIV>
<DIV>And it was! And I'm sure you feel a HUGE sense of relief! You =
persisted,
you cogitated, you asked the list (I'm sure we all "prayed" for you!) =
and
finally you won the day! It was NOT your fault.... but who cares whos' =
fault it
was? </DIV>
<DIV>I am equally sure we all have had similar problems and you will get =
inundated with the stories...</DIV>
<DIV>Here's mine: It was a dark and gloomy day in the long shadows of =
the
evening sun here in the Dowdlands of Sussex-by-the-Sea. The head of =
music and I
were gazing disconsolately at the school's S&S "A" in the school =
chapel.
"every time we move it the buzz comes on a different note" he said. So =
we looked
and looked, we thumped the soundboard and there it was. Buz.z.z.z =
"There's got
to be something in there" he said. I agreed. Providentially in my tuning =
kit I
have one of those dentists small round mirrors on a long metal handle. =
Equally
providentially the head of music (whose name, believe it or not, is =
Terry) had
tucked away in his cupboard one of those long flexible probe things =
where three
prongs come out of the business end when you press the plunger. These =
tools
together with my powerful flash-light were sufficient. The school had =
lived with
this problem for several years before I came on the scene. Now we looked =
most
carefully under the plate with my mirror and there, caught lodged =
between the
plate and soundboard was a foreign object. Spherical, just the right =
size and
awesome! Carefully now. I inserted the long flexible tool with jaws =
extended. I
managed to grab the object and, by Terry pressing down on the soundboard =
while I
gingerly worked the foreign object toward me we extracted it. What was =
it? A
marble? NO - a dirty great heavy ball bearing. It now resides in Terry's =
office,
in a jar labelled "Extract of Steinway. Not to be taken lightly" The sun =
shone
brightly thereafter the clouds had lifted and the Downs basked in the =
late
evening glow. Now, some ten years later, I have the job of =
overhauling that
same S&S on the schools' limited budget. </DIV>
<DIV>This is what the list is all about. Help when needed!</DIV>
<DIV>Regards to all</DIV>
<DIV>Michael G (UK)</DIV></BODY></HTML>