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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> The weirdest thing I found in a grand was petrified marshmallows.It looked like maybe 50 or 60 of the miniature kind spread evenly up and down the keyboard.The owner of the piano confessed to haveing done that as a child which would have been thirty years prior to my discovery.I think the piano had had a few tunings since then,but nobody noticed any problems.I believe I opened the action to repair something unrelated to the marshmallows. Robin Olson RPT------------ Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> What's the weirdest, strangest stuff YOU'VE found stuck, lurking, and hiding <BR>> in your customer's grand (or upright)? For me, it has to be a toss up <BR>> between a harmonica (customer called and did not know why his grand piano's <BR>> bass notes were stuck!), and an ancient master card, expiration date, 1971! <BR>> <BR>> Other items I've found in both verts & grands throughout the years include: <BR>> gold stars, wide variety of coins, some foreign (one buffalo head nickel was <BR>> cool!), paper clips, guitar pics, pens/pencils, hair pins, real and fake <BR>> jewelry, marbles,(which would confirm my suspicion that a few of my <BR>> customers had LOST theirs!), broken action parts, ivory keys, driver's <BR>> licenses, etc., etc. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Terry Peterson <BR>> <BR>> _________________________________________________________________ <BR>> Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! <BR>> http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>