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<DIV>How about this one.</DIV>
<DIV>Giving a free lecture, to a bunch of piano music teachers. By the way a
good way to get your name known.</DIV>
<DIV>One of them asked about a crack in the soundboard, so I turned the piano
around to show all of them the soundboard, and where a crack would be.</DIV>
<DIV>I continued talking, and nonchalantly, push the piano back into position
with one hand. Wrong, wrong, wrong, the caster didn't turn as it was a carpeted
floor and the piano started to fall. Next mistake, I tried to
catch it, it landed on my big toe, which I thought I had pulled out in
time. I didn't, four fractures, in the end segment.</DIV>
<DIV>That is why I was hobbling around at the convention, in Dearborn.</DIV>
<DIV>I told the class that was not the way to do it, that to always take care
when moving a piano. </DIV>
<DIV>And, yes I did gain some customers from it.</DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia.<BR><A
href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mkurta@adelphia.net href="mailto:mkurta@adelphia.net">Mike Kurta</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 24, 2002 3:50
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Stupid Mistake</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Hi Sue:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The worst one I can remember
is trying to tilt a new studio piano on a tile floor, without a safety
strap around the tilter and piano. You guessed it! When I tried to
tip it back up, as soon as the rear caster contacted the floor, the piano slid
off the tilter on its back resulting in a fair amount of cabinet damage.
The only saving grace: it was my piano in my home!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Mike
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