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GOLD in The Piano

  • 1.  GOLD in The Piano

    Posted 04-22-2017 15:21
    Here's a lucky tuner who found 13 lbs of gold coins in an old upright. 

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/who-stashed-gold-inside-a-british-piano-its-a-mystery/2017/04/20/5db83efc-25cd-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.8257e0426a62

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    Philip Jamison
    Philip Jamison Pianos
    WEST CHESTER PA
    610-696-8449
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  • 2.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Posted 04-22-2017 15:27

    A year from now it'll tuner gets nothing.






  • 3.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Posted 04-22-2017 15:39
    All I ever found was lead

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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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  • 4.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 00:22
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    You were lucky - all I ever found was roaches!  ...no, that's not true:  once it was beetle larvae.

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    Linda Scott, RPT
    Portland, OR
    503-231-9732
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  • 5.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 03:41
    I found mouse bones and someone's very old Mexican lunch.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 6.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 08:06
    Linda -
    Maybe just bad color rendering, but, in the photo,  they sort of look, at least, 'golden'.

    Susan -
    What gave it away as Mexican?

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    David Skolnik
    Hastings-on-Hudson NY
    914-231-7565
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  • 7.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 10:17
    Now guys, everyone knows that lead can be turned into gold.  There's probably a youtube video of the process.

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    Larry Fisher
    Owner, Chief Grunt, Head Hosehead
    Vancouver WA
    360-256-2999
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  • 8.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 14:59
    Sure, Larry, it's easy. Just take a WHOLE LOT of lead to a metal recycler, take the proceeds, and buy a TINY piece of gold.

    Money, the alchemist's most powerful tool ... turns lots of things to other things.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 9.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 14:55
    David -- the Mexican lunch. It was on top of the bass dampers and hammers of a piano in a Roman Catholic parish hall in California, and I could see that it had started in life as a taco.

    Did anyone tell you back when you started to learn tuning that you were going to have some very strange and sometimes funny experiences?

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 10.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Posted 04-24-2017 03:12
    Someone had dumped this old Upright by a country roadside so I opened it up, looking for useful parts like key ivories and found a diamond engagement ring . . . .  so I looked further and found a gold wedding ring . . . . there must be a story behind this . . .   I still have the engagement ring.  I've used most of the ivories over the years since then.   Michael   UK





  • 11.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 15:13
    Over the years I have found a couple of Indian Head pennies and a Liberty nickle.  Value?  Maybe a couple of dollars

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    Clarence Zeches
    Piano Service Enterprise School of Technology
    Toccoa GA
    706-886-4035
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  • 12.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Member
    Posted 04-23-2017 17:08

    Bogus  on the lunch. I just lost my appetite. It might be a good idea to start looking at the back of uprights flush with the wall in case there is some pirate bootie stashed between the beams.

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    James Kelly
    Pawleys Island SC
    843-325-4357
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  • 13.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-23-2017 20:01
    I once had to pull the kick plate off of an old upright I was servicing and found a stash of Stock Certificates.  I pointed this out to the owners and they commented that "they had forgotten that they had put them there"
     
    Ken
     
    Gerler Piano & Organ Service
    12425 Parkwood Lane
    Florissant, MO 63033-4662
    kenneth.gerler@prodigy.net
    314-355-2339





  • 14.  RE: GOLD in The Piano

    Posted 04-24-2017 08:32
    "A couple of the keys aren't going down when I press them." said the client when I arrived. Soon they were working when I removed the 1881 silver dollar from under the key backs and handed it to the client. "Oh, you can keep that as your tip today", she said. I still carry it in my upright tuning case many years later. Sure beats when I pulled a dead mouse out that was jamming the action in a grand and showed it to the client. She was a fancy interior decorator and I thought she was going to faint. By the way, I don't carry the mouse around in my grand tuning roll kit. 

    Bob

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    Robert Highfield
    Lancaster PA
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