ethics discussion to the next level

[w peterson]

I bought a case of surgical blue booties.  My customers really appreciate
this.  Find them on the net.

Bill Peterson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Grebe" <pianoman@accessus.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: ethics discussion to the next level


> 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
> BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
> pianoman@accessus.net
> ----- 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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> > >> Also www.glycoscience.org
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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