ethics discussion to the next level

[David Ilvedson]

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Are you speaking from personal experience?   Hopefully you don't=
 do this anymore...

David Ilvedson, RPT

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From: "D.L. Bullock" <dlbullock@att.net>
To: PTG <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:20:59 -0500
Subject: ethics discussion to the next level

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
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