last minute job

[Charly Tuner]

One of the things I like best about being a floor tuner, are the last minute 
jobs I am asked to perform, like today. (IF you haven't gathered, I'm being 
sarcastic, ha ha.) I was asked to, "make it sound great, it's going out 
tomorrow". The "it" the manager was referring to was a pretty old "Strauss & 
Sons" Spinet. It was grossly out of tune, plate bolts were so loose they 
were barely holding the plate on, the right front leg was just as loose. 
Sticking keys galore, tinny, harsh sound in tenor & treble, and as "tubby" 
as it gets in the bass. sound like a challenge? Oh, did I mention a broken 
string at B6? This was my biggest problem, because I was not looking forward 
to disconnecting and tying up ALL the stickers in order to remove the 
action, so I made the decision to replace the broken string with the action 
IN! Thanks goodness for my Forceps, which I used to hold the wire on the 
hitch pin. Thanks to my thin hands, I was able to carefully guide the wire 
behind the action, and through the bridge pins, up through the pressure bar 
and so on. It was NOT fun, but was do-able. Total time for entire job: 1 
hour, 45 min.

Terry Peterson
Los Angeles, CA
Associate Member, PTG

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