<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C51591.727A8340"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> I am looking for an old, but = usable tuning hammer for my daughter (12). = I don’t want to buy the goose-neck one that is listed on = ebay.<o:p></o:p> Does anyone have an old one that = they are willing to part with? Or any = other basic tools of which you have duplicates = ?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></p= > <div>  <o:p></o:p>=       Brian P. = Doepke<o:p></o:p>       A.A.A. Piano Works, = Inc<o:p></o:p> </div> -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Gullion Sent: Friday, February = 18, 2005 7:47 AM To: = <st1:PersonName>Pianotech</st= 1:PersonName> Subject: Re: Dumb Tuner = moves -/ lost tool <o:p> </o:p> <div> We are a quirky bunch when it comes to tools. = I love them, especially piano tools. I have collected hundreds of them, = especially really old ones. But I too have a special screw driver. Basic hardwood = handle, steel shank. I bought it at a fleee market ten years ago for .50 cents. = After all these years and all those giant extra tight piano screws, the blade = is like new. On the other hand I have broken twisted and chipped dozens of other "new" ones. I have bought many old piano tools from retiring = guys, tools cases, gadgets, and widgets. All displayed in antique glass and = oak cases. I am obsessed. I also search for piano memorabilia like tools = with company names on them, or promo items from supply companys. In my = twilight years I hope to add a piano museum to my workshop and tell people about = the "good ole days" when they drop by. Carl Teplitski <koko99@shaw.ca> wrote: = <o:p></o:p> A couple of days ago, I was at a friends = house tuning his daughters piano. Well we were discussing golf , put the piano back together, and headed straight to his workshop to see = his new golf club, which he's assembling .Well, next day I'm out on a tuning and looking for my long , = slim, wood handle screw driver, which I use to insert the tuning felt. My favorite tool . About 12 in. long, and I use it for everything, almost. Had one many years ago, and misplaced it. I'm still in mourning for it. = Went over the places I'd been to where I probably used it, and decided I must have left it at my friends place, so I called him. No luck, guess it must be in the piano. Went back today, and took the fallboard off, and there was = that sucker, laying on the bass end of the keyboard. Hardly could tell it was there when you played the keys, = <B! R>unless you happened to play the correct sharp key. Also have lost a small screw driver, which I was really attached to. Got over that one fairly easily, but this one , would have been tramatic. Carl / Winnipeg JAMES DALLY wrote: > Phil: I don't know how you could do that! (I left my large case/ a = > tall light/ in the parking lot of a church.............. = fortunately > someone put it inside....... > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Bondi" <PHIL@PHILBONDI.COM>> To: "Pianotech" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:21 AM > Subject: Re: Dumb Tuner moves - was Stupid Tuner Tricks > > >> From what I've read with this thread, it still doesn't match = the >> level of stupid that I did just yesterday, and it reminded me = that I >> should share that level of stupid with the rest of you. >> >> New Client - N! ew Piano - Warranty Tuning from the dealer - = nothing >> out of the ordinary so far, right? >> >> Well, I had another appointment after that one. When I got to = that >> next appointment, I noticed that my little brown bag that holds = my >> tuning lever and rubber mutes was not in my tool box. = Everything else >> was there except that bag. >> >> I looked around the piano I was presently at..thinking I MUST = have >> put it down somewhere............. >> >> It didn't take me long to figure out that the bag in question = was >> left behind at the last client's home. I may have left behind a = mute >> or 2 on the plate in the past (isn't there a Mute-Sharing = program in >> place?!?), but never the whole bag. It was clear across town = (20 >> minutes each way - thank God it was Saturday or the time would = have >> been more). I kicked myself for awhil! e, then I started = laughing at my >> stupidity - how could I have left behind the one bag that would = >> prevent me from doing my job? Here's my excuse: >> >> The owner of the home and I were talking as I was putting the = piano >> back together - the owner happens to be a Boston Red Sox fan, = and I'm >> not. >> >> I was cursed! >> >> -Phil Bondi(Fl) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<o:p></o:p></p= > </div> Richard the "Piano Guy"<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>