"should I stay or should I go?"

[David Ilvedson]

Great point.  I always ask for permission and help.

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:13:54 -0400
Subject: Re: "should I stay or should I go?"

>Hi,
>Quite a few times I go to tune a piano, and it has been moved out to the 
>middle of the room.
>They say they have never seen a piano tuned, and thought it had to be away 
>from the wall.
>I always help them move it back before tuning, unless it is a hardwood 
>floor.
>I NEVER move a piano that is on a hardwood floor, I let them move it, or 
>have it moved, anytime it has to come out.
>One tuner I know, just moved one side out from the wall, to check for a 
>crack in the soundboard. He put a mark in their floor, it cost his insurance 
>company, over $3000, to repair it.


>John M. Ross
>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
>jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:10 PM
>Subject: RE: "should I stay or should I go?"


>>
>>>  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
>>
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