Dear Clyde,
Such a terrible thing for a refinisher who works so hard with such
deadly stuff for such low pay. Perhaps your chapter knows of somebody
learning restriningwho would do it for free. Perhaps there's a guild
member who could teach the refinisher to restring in exchange for some
refinishing work. My first restringing took eight hours to get about 20
unisons, and about three days to do the whole piano. Have mercy, this
guy's gonna need help with this. Hope the pin block is ok.
-Mike
> Friends:
>
> When I got home yesterday a note on my desk said, "Mrs. S, piano
> strings" and included a phone number. I called Mrs. S, with whom I had
> no former contact. Seems they bought a 1930's baby grand piano cheap,
> and they wanted it to look better, so they took it to a furniture
> refinishing man (I'll call him Mr. M, but she didn't give me his name)
> because he would charge only $750 to refinish it.
>
> Some time later Mrs. S got a call from Mr. M, asking if she could get
> him replacement piano strings. He had taken all the strings off the
> piano, and some of them broke, but he assured her he could put them back
> on if she could get him new ones.
>
> So Mrs. S is calling around, getting advice on what to do. She's
> calling some good people and is getting a variety of responses. As far
> as my feelings toward Mr. M go, I go back and forth between being
> incredulous and furious. I don't know what he's thinking, but I bet he
> lies awake at nights trying to figure a way out of this one!
>
> Care to respond? Did you ever run into something like this?
> Fortunately, I am the uninvolved bystander, and I intend to keep it that
> way!
>
> Regards,
>
> Clyde Hollinger, RPT
> Lititz, PA
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