Steinways

[Tom Myler]

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> From: James Grebe <pianoman@inlink.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Steinways
> Date: Wednesday, March 19, 1997 5:13 AM

> 	I have run across droves of people who will spend thousands of dollars
on
> a piano. then pay to have it refinished, and then call a tuner to tune it
> only to find it has insurmountable problems.  What happens first should
be
> last.

Interesting how they will often TELL YOU ahead of time that "it's in good
condition".

>The crazy thing is it seems that the tuner turns out to be the bad
> guy in the mind of the piano owner.

Yep.  They kill the messenger.

It can be difficult to find a diplomatic, gentle way to tell someone that
they've made an expensive, easily preventable mistake, especially when your
real thought is "How could you have been so stupid?".



Myler, Tom

"Perhaps the greatest wisdom is the knowledge
of one's own ignorance"

                                 John Steinbeck