One Piano Per....Marshall

[Joe And Penny Goss]

This topic reminds me of a local used car dealer. "Honest Bob's Fairly
Reliable Used Cars"
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: One Piano Per....Marshall


> At 08:13 PM 1/18/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> >but to say "I'm calling to schedule a tuning" seems harmless provided you
> >add in the question somewhere "Do you have a regular tuner." etc.
>
> As others have said, I think that this particular opening line has you
> on very thin ice. "I'm calling to schedule a tuning" implies that someone
> from the church has asked you to call and schedule the tuning. i.e., the
> decision to have you tune the piano has already been made by someone
> with the authority to do it, and you're just arranging the time to come.
>
> "Do you have a regular tuner?" contradicts "I'm calling to schedule a
> tuning," and the net result is confusion. Is he our tuner, or isn't he?
> Has someone asked him to schedule a tuning? Who? When he says, "Do you
> have a regular tuner?" is he trying to get us to agree to a fixed
> tuning schedule?
>
> If somebody thinks that someone else in the church management asked
> you to call, and schedules a tuning with you, and then finds out that
> no one did, you could end up with some hard feelings. "Hapless secretary"
> just about covers it.
>
> Just my usual HO.
>
> sssssnn
>
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