Etiquette in the Customer's Home

[Z! Reinhardt]

"Would you mind if I did a little vacuuming while you are tuning?"

"Not if you don't mind using your imagination, because the piano will sound
like 3 vacuum cleaners running in unison when I get done."

"What do you mean by that?!"

"It means that the piano will be tuned to a noisy vacuum cleaner rather than
to its own inner voice ..." and so goes the explanation on why the tuning
difficulty when there's too much extramusical noise going on.

Z! Reinhardt  RPT
Ann Arbor  MI
diskladame@provide.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: Etiquette in the Customer's Home


: At 07:34 11/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
: >Hope I'm not being toooo darn picky here, but just one point:
: >"...but you should know that I find it very difficult to give your piano
a
: >good tuning with all the competition from the clocks."
: >
: >Perhaps better stated: It is very difficult to tune...... rather than: I
: >have a difficult time tuning.....
: >
: >Kinda like: oops, I broke a string - as opposed to: maam, a string broke.
: >
: >It ain't your fault!
: >
: >Terry Farrell
: >
:
:
: Yup!
:
: Depending on the relationship you have with your customers, you might
: advise them to make sure that they have the ceiling fan/vacuum/clocks/etc.
: all running whenever they play the piano so that it will sound the same as
: when it was tuned.
: ;-}
:
:
:
:
: Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
: Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
: Voice-(563)-387-1204  //  Fax (563)-387-1076(Dept.office)
:
: -The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
:
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