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Hi,  I don't know if this is worth posting, but I sure had a good
chuckle over it.  I and three other piano techs were chatting about the
occupational hazards of piano tuning when a fourth tech with forty years
experience chimed in, "The only occupational hazards that I can think
of are lonely housewives and false beats!"

I can think of a great many more, but I thought it was funny.

I recall one time we were to pick up a Victor piano with an Operators
A-roll action in it.  The piano was on the second floor of an old
duplex.  Anyway, I and the movers got there and discovered the piano
lying in a mangled heap in the front yard with a large hole gaping in
the north front side of the house, the drapes flapping in the breeze.

The woman was an odd sort and did not want us in the house to move
the piano out.  Her husband and their fourteen-year old-son decided to
move the instrument from the second floor down a large staircase with
a turn.  They let go of the instrument right at the top of the stairs
and it went careening down from the second story, through the wall
and into the front yard.  The gaping hole used to be a large stained
glass window that proved to be just the right size.  Boy, were their
faces red!

Anyway, we now had a great parts piano.  We took the piano for the same
price we had offered for it because of the large collection of original
"A" rolls that came with it, but what an experience!

Cheers, Karl Schroeder