Reactionary curmudgeon vs: "snuggles"

Kristinn Leifsson istuner@islandia.is
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:11:51 +0000




>Recently I read here that someone leaves the pitch raise tuning DELIBERATELY
>" ROUGH" so that the customer is more impressed with their tuning the next
>session.  They were feeling a bit sheepish about that.  I have a tip for you,
>  -- this is the essence of a con job,  doing deliberately inferior work, 
> when
>better work could be done,  to con the customer into believing something that
>isn't true!
>
>
>Bill Simon
>Phoenix



Really Mr Simon,  now, now, relax... please.  Take a deep 
breath.  <Norwegian G>

You have to learn to take things written in the spur of the moment, as many 
things are here, with a grain of salt.
I´ll just get straight to the point.  My pitch raises are good.  I believe 
that I am a good tuner, and that most of my tunings, if done on an 
instrument that permits it, can pass the PTG test easily, although I 
haven´t tried that given my location.  Heck, I´ll send you a CD with my 
tuning if you want.

It´s also difficult to know what other peoples´ standards are.  My pitch 
raises might be a heck of a lot better than many others´, and that little 
comment I made was something that I shouldn´t have done in writing I 
guess.  It´s something one should discuss face to face, and sometimes I 
substitute that with these list discussions.
But sure, I can see your point; a young guy out in nowhere does dirt rotten 
pitch raises unbeknownst to his customers to cover his a little bit less 
rotten tunings, kind of amusing, really, but understandable seeing as we 
have no reference.
I assure you this is not the case.

Hope this is cleared up, I have to go tune for the Reykjavík conservatory, 
and they can count on me.  And this isn´t the first time I work for them :)


Best regards,

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland

P.S. How´s the weather in Phoenix?






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