ethics discussion to the next level

[James Grebe]

I always carry corduroy house shoes in the car for those clients,  Walking
in socks is very dangerous (slippery) and using the pedals is painful.
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
WWW.JamesGrebe.com
1526 Raspberry Lane
Arnold, MO 63010
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Forsyth" <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: ethics discussion to the next level


> I have a few customers who insist on shoes being removed before entering
> their houses, so be prepared!
>
> No it's not what you're thinking.
>
> In winter it's bloody freezing on bare wooden floors.
>
> AF
> "where there is sole, no charm can be"
> (with apologies to the EAR)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 1:00 AM
> Subject: Re: ethics discussion to the next level
>
>
> > Hi DL! You forgot ONE LITTLE THING....the piano tuner
> > ALSO did not wash his hands prior to going to work
> > ( something I always do as soon as I enter the home )
> > leaving greasy filth ( from his steering wheel )  and
> > salty sweat all over the piano's interior, causing
> > rust on the strings, pressure bar, etc ....
> >     Thump
> >
> >
> > --- "D.L. Bullock" <dlbullock@att.net> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
> >> www.thepianoworld.com
> >>
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