ethics discussion to the next level

[Avery Todd]

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Just wondering why this is here for the second time! :-)

Avery

At 08:20 AM 10/6/04, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
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