<HTML>We've all got= tales of woe involving piano abuse in high schools.  Those broken hamm= ers in the photo the other day were heart-wrenching.  I don't have anyt= hing that bad to report, but I did have an interesting call today. Last year I tuned this same piano, same time of year, accompanied by a h= igh-volume dress-rehearsal of "Godspell" in the auditorium that was only a s= winging door away. Today, same junker Baldwin K(too bad, musta been a nice p= iano at one time), different cast, different play.   A0 has a loose tuning pin, so I decide to CA it.  I started to remo= ve the action, when all kinds of flotsam and jetsam dumped out on the floor,= including about 23 hinge screws that held the front part of the lid on at o= ne point in time.  I get the action about halfway out, and there it is:=  a petrified burrito, in its entirety.   ouldn't see the sal= sa, though.  I guess someone went hungry that day.... As Bill Ballard's quote says, "may life give you interesting pianos to w= ork on," or something such.  Interesting isn't always good, but it does= occasionally offer us a chance to smile. Dave Stahl</HTML>