ethics discussion to the next level

D.L. Bullock dlbullock@att.net
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:20:59 -0500


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
Why would someone change tuners?  Do you recognize yourself in the following
story?  If so, it is time for a drastic change.

The tuner arrived in a very loud, very beat up truck that leaked oil all
over the driveway.  He came in wearing shabby work clothes that judging from
the smell had not been washed for a week and were probably slept in the
night before.  His personal hygiene was such that the lady of the house had
to use her dish towel to breathe and left the room quickly after showing him
to the piano.  For three hours after he left, the room smelled of him even
with all the windows and doors open. Of course the open windows changed the
temperature in the piano drastically.

His tool box was huge and metal.  It was so big and heavy that he seemed to
have trouble carrying it and left several dents in furniture in the path
from front door to piano.  His box was placed on the ivory carpet and when
he left it left several spots.  When he picked it up to go it pulled a long
piece of yarn out of the carpet.  When he put his tools on the piano he left
several scratches on the piano case.  While tuning, he knocked several spots
into the gold plate that are now black.

When he replaced that string that has been gone for several years, there is
something different about it.  It does not look like the ones around it.  It
wraps around the tuning peg real funny.  There is a little sharp piece of
piano string that sticks out of two of those tuning pegs now.  The wire on
all the others is all going around the pin and bunched together, but his new
one has the wire crossing itself and all spread out.

The hammer he replaced sticks way up above all the other hammers.  It rubs
the one next to it.

When he tuned the piano the lady noticed that he did not tune the top five
or six notes.  They were fine, he said.  The lowest bass notes he did not
bother with either,  You can't hear those anyway, he said.

When the lady got the windows all closed having aired out the room, she sat
down to the piano to play her nicely tuned piano.  She played a while and
decided that tuning it really did not make that much difference.  She
wondered why people always say you should tune your piano regularly.  It did
not sound all that different and that one that had the missing string was
all wonky sounding.  She decided that it would be a really long time before
she ever had another tuner out to work on her piano.


D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
www.thepianoworld.com

Put the worlds greatest healer to work for WHATEVER health problem you may
have----YOUR OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM.  Your body is capable of healing EVERY
disease if you give it the right fuel.  Visit
http://www.mannapages.com/dlbullock to learn how to get the right fuel.
Also www.glycoscience.org

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/48/20/3e/2a/attachment.htm

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--



This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC