"should I stay or should I go?"

[Ron Nossaman]

>  Along with quiet issues is the one about removing the
>200 little knick-knacks that are carefully arranged on top of the piano.
>
>
>David Love


Good luck on that one. On the seventeenth tuning appointment, I still hear, 
"Oh yes, you'll need all that stuff off of the top, won't you?"

Tuning is, unfortunately, categorically lumped in with other "service" work 
like carpet cleaning, explosive demolition, framing wall partitions, 
roofing, and poisoning the area to kill suspected or potential bugs. So 
they tend to schedule as many "service" jobs as possible at the same time 
for their convenience. If they can't find someone to run a Skill saw while 
you're there, they will be overcome with an irresistible need to clean 
something - noisily and with evil smells, if possible. At least it's 
sometimes entertaining as well as annoying. Did you ever watch someone's 
face through the glass as they wash windows? It's a lot like the faces 
people make feeding babies.

Ron N