Etiquette in the Customer's Home

[Farrell]

I have a piano teacher client that has a coo-coo clock collection all around her studio - I'll bet 15 or more of them. None set to the proper time. Every few minutes the (#$*&(@*#$&ing things go off.

I feel your pain. It's a serious situation that warrants action.

Answer: No, it would not be rude at all to make some adjustments as you describe.

BTW, when you are done, can I borrow your sledge?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan R. Barnard" <mathstar@salemnet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Etiquette in the Customer's Home


Situation: Customer collects clocks. Regulators. Cuckoos. Mantels. Grandmothers and Grandfathers. Novelty Clocks. All kinda clocks...tick, ticka, tickety, tickaty, bong, chime, gong, wang, ding, ticka, tick ... None in sync with any other and all slightly off from each other as they strike the quarter hours ... Bbang bbongong bbbing boonng....

Question: Would it be "rude" or, in some other way, socially unacceptable to take my 2 1/2 pound stringing sledge and start adjusting these little treasures?

Alan Barnard
Next Time I'll Check The Gas Gauge Before Driving to Cabool from Salem, MO