<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Wim, you've been = working for the College Crowd way too long,,,,,, It's starting to rub off on you, methinks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@AOL.COM = href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> ; <A = title=Pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 06, 2002 = 12:15 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> It was all my = fault</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>As per my = report of a couple of weeks ago, I need to admit that the vandalism to the Concert = Hall Steinway was all my fault. After reviewing the facts, and speculating = on what happened, there is only one conclusion. It was my lack of foresight = that I forced someone one to destroy the piano. <BR><BR>As far as we can = piece the course of events together, this is what happened. High school = students, fresh from a party celebrating graduation, jimmied some locks on the = building doors, and entered the building in the early morning hours, (about 2 AM), = looking for something to do. On the second floor they found a fire extinguisher, = and, wanting to impress our faculty that they had artistic talent, used it = to paint the upstairs boys bath room. They then somehow unlocked a drum = practice room, and wanting to find out how loud an amplifier could go, turned it on, = full volume. In order to let everyone in the building know how that sounds, = they found the main electrical panel, and turned off the power to the 2nd = floor. When our maintenance people arrived at 5;30, and turned on the power, = they heard the effects. <BR><BR>Before they left, these talented students = found their way onto the stage of the concert hall, where, to their delight, = found a piano, with it's lid up. Had I known these talented students wanted to = play, I would have left the action in the piano. But since I had to do some = work on, I removed it. Well, these poor kids. When they couldn't play the piano, = they did the next best thing. Using the tuning hammer I left on the piano, they = wanted to see what hitting a string with the tool would sound like. What they = discovered was that hitting a string with a tuning hammer, breaks the = string, creating a wonderful sound, like a gun shot. Of course, these talented = musicians couldn't just hear one gun shot, they wanted to hear more. = So they proceeded to hit the strings 12 more times. But some of them must not = have had good aim, because they missed the strings, and hit about 10 dampers = instead, and 2 tuning pins, braking two of them. Still not feeling satisfied, = the broke the upstop ra! il in 4. And I guess since they had painted the = bathroom, they decided to use the empty cavity as a urinal. To add insult to injury, = they took my tuning lever. These kids wouldn't have created all this damage = if I had only left the action in the piano. That is why I take full = responsibility. It was all my fault. <BR><BR>The only good that came from this, is = that the school is getting a brand new D, and one of the piano faculty is = getting the repaired concert grand. <BR><BR>Wim = </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>