Refinishing fiasco (story)

[David ilvedson]

Jim,

Is this for real?  

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA

(West Coast Source for pre-gummed traveling paper)



Date sent:      	Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:52:08 -0400
To:             	pianotech@ptg.org
From:           	harvey <harvey@greenwood.net>
Subject:        	Re: Refinishing fiasco (story)
Send reply to:  	pianotech@ptg.org

> There are more, but this will be the last one. (Altogether now... H u r r a y!)
> 
> The call was from a prospective client. The husband had decided to refinish
> the piano himself. We all know the routine, but this one has a new twist.
> Instead of sealing the piano shut with paint, this owner was a
> perfectionist. He had meticulously removed the various components. While on
> a roll, he decided that the internal parts could also stand some
> "individual attention".
> 
> The semi-accurate phrasing from the phone call: "You shouldn't have any
> problems. My husband has already done the hard part. All the action parts
> are removed from that long wooden thing, and are cleaned and sorted in
> separate boxes by like kind. Everything is stored in the hall closet,
> waiting for you to put them back on. He even sorted those little round
> paper things into separate containers."
> 
> Had I not already seen this before, I would have agreed to a service call,
> just for the experience. Instead, I suddenly became "too busy" at that moment.
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Harvey, RPT
> Greenwood, SC
> harvey@greenwood.net
> ________________________
> Greenwood (n): the largest city in South Carolina WITHOUT an Interstate
> 
> 


David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@jps.net