Less driving, more tuning--aka, a good day!

Piannaman@aol.com Piannaman@aol.com
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:02:23 EST


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List, especially newbies to the world of home piano service,
 
Take heart!  Keep at it!  You won't always have to drive 8,000  miles for a 
spinet store tuning.  Actually, it doesn't seem like that long  ago..... 
 
Today was somewhat different, and what I am seeing on a regular  basis:  
 
Job one, tune two pianos(a Kawai baby grand and a Yamaha P2, both in decent  
tune) at a teacher's house
45 minute break at Peet's Coffee to swill some brew, talk to my son on the  
phone and call assorted clients (a sordid client??)
drive three miles 
Job two, Seiler upright, right at pitch, no meddling necessary with  action.
15 minute break, drive 5 miles
Job three, Walter console at pitch, regular client; touch up lost motion  and 
let-off
on my way home go to
Job four, PSO Karl Muller upright.  Regular client.  Pushed pin  back through 
jack and flange to fix dead key, touched up lost motion.  At  pitch, tuned.
 
Here's the kicker:  total drive time?  Around 30 minutes, not one  job being 
more than 7 miles from my home!  Less drive time between jobs is  huge in 
terms of lowering stress in a congested metropolitan area.  
 
Here's to many more of these for all of us(without the Karl Muller,  perhaps!)
 
Dave Stahl, feeling somewhat relaxed after such a small amount of road time  
and a glass of Shiraz
 
 
 
 

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