[sdiy] The things one sees..

[Paul D Brooks]

Although i've seen lots of stuff inside the thousands
of keybaords i've fixed, two stand out in my mind:

one: a roland hs-80 which needed some keyboard contact
work (ostensibly).  well, it had been stored in a
basement which flooded, so it stank of mold pretty
bad. the fun part:  roaches.  many thousands of dead
and living cockroaches.  you could hear them moving
inside.  

two: bag of pot that must have been years old... but
the keybaord belonged to a church.  hmm.  evidently,
it was donated by a student leaving for college some
years ago... and it's pretty easy to just open up a
juno-60 and use it as a storage box... i declined to
mention this to my church lady customer, and gave the
baggie to my manager to dispose of.

both keyboards lived... but i really did *not* like
working on that hs-80.