Service Refusal

[J Patrick Draine]

Yep, these are the times you wish you spent a little more time
"pre-qualifying" over the phone. I had one a couple weeks ago was
called for an appraisal and *possible* tuning. Fortunately he gave me
enough information that I knew it might be a very short visit, but I
was optimistic that I would be rendering a long neglected piano into
playable condition that morning. The early 20th C grand was under a
skylight that clearly had some leakage problems (some years ago), the
finish was shot to hell, dampers hard as rocks from its soaking, etc.
Fortunately the fellow already had a pretty good idea I would be
declaring it DOA, so I told him the bad news, gave him the number of
mover would remove it when they were ready to part with their favorite
plane stand, collected my base minimum appraisal/evaluation fee, and
went home to continue unpacking from my week in Rochester.
Woops, rambling again,
Patrick Draine

On 7/11/06, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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> I had a first today. I went to an appointment and refused to tune a piano