[AH] RE: treasure in my synth

[Doyle]

amorel wrote:

> On 18-Jan-00, Brent Haeseker wrote:
> C=I still have a penny rolling around under the keyboard of my Jupiter-6.
> C=When I got my first piano as I kid (a very old generic upright) there
> C=was a mouse skeleton and a dried up lizard in it.....

  My father fixes pians and pianolas as a side job. Once we found a mummified
rat in an ols piano when we were cleaning out the workshop. It obviously
hadn't had enough moisture to rot.it Looked like those Inca mummies they keep
digging up in the Andes...
My Dad told me that he found a cat in a pino he was fising, in the same
situation as the rat.
This is the best one....
He was fixing some grumpy old widow's pianola, when he found a bag full (about
100 of them) of the old circular (Australian) 50cents, which are worth about
20 DOLLARS now because of their silver content. (They had to take them out of
circulation because people discovered the silver content and started melting
them down).
The widow had no idea of them being there, and when my father showed them to
her, she accused him of trying to steal them! It turned out that her late
husband was a bank worker, and everyday he'd take a few coins back from work.
My dad then put the price of repairing the pianola up $300 of his quoted
price.