This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I'm often amazed at how little awareness people have for interference = noises. I would ask him/her to stop them all before I came over. Since = they're not in sinc anyway, who cares. I ask my customers with birds to = remove them from the room before I start and don't mind reminding people = to be turn off various appliances, running water, loud conversations = etc., that they seem oblivious to. Today, while I was tuning, I had = somebody come up to me with their 5 hp Hoover and ask if I minded if = they vacuumed while I tuned--in the same room, no less. I said fine as = long as they didn't mind me skipping the notes I would have tuned while = they were running it. They decided to wait. =20 David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan R. Barnard=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: November 21, 2002 8:18 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=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4e/3d/fd/0b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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