---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 11/13/04 8:24:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,=20 davidlovepianos@comcast.net writes: > This is an interesting discussion. I=E2=80=99m almost getting the impress= ion some=20 > people enjoy tuning in a noisy environment. I don=E2=80=99t. If I can ge= t the=20 > natives to be quiet I certainly will. If I can=E2=80=99t, well then I mak= e the next=20 > decision to do the best I can or leave. I certainly would find it irritat= ing to=20 > struggle through a tuning in a noisy environment that I could have quieted= =20 > down with a few diplomatic words and then have them call me back because t= he=20 > tuning wasn=E2=80=99t as spot on as usual. =20 > =20 > David Love > davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Beha= lf=20 > Of David Skolnik > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:25 PM > To: Pianotech > Subject: Re: "should I stay or should I go?"- David Anderson > =20 > David A - > First, too many Davids on this thread. >=20 David, David, David, etc.,=20 So I feel compelled to jump in, albeit a tad late. =20 Tuning in a noisy environment can be very stressful. My worst day in this=20 regard had me fighting a jackhammer on the first job, a leaf blower on the=20 second, and a lawn mower on the third. And they were all outside of the sph= ere of=20 the piano owner's influence. Unsurprisingly, I was not in the best of moods= =20 at the end of the day. As David L. says, diplomacy is key. Many people just don't understand the=20 intense concentration required in tuning a piano. When they are politely=20 informed that tuning with background noise is counter-productive to the tuni= ng=20 effort, they are often surprised and more than willing to do their part to m= ake our=20 job easier. Being a prima dona won't win anyone friends. I've been hired by many people= =20 who were displeased far more with the previous tuner's attitude than with th= e=20 work they did. Demanding silence is far different than asking if it would b= e=20 possible to limit the noise in order to have the piano tuned as well as=20 possible. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20/2a/c2/67/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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