what would you do.

[Don]

Hi Les,

If you did the work why would you not expect to be paid for it?

At 10:18 PM 3/14/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> Today I tuned a piano which the owner said was tuned two weeks ago, but 
>sounded badly.  The former tuner, listed in Chinese Yellow Pages (huge 
>Chinese population here in Houston), left a mute in the piano, a phillips 
>screwdrever, and screwed about with the fallboard.   The piano was from zero 
>to 60 cents flat, 15-25 in the first five octaves, and about 25-40 in the 
>last two.  Amazing.  It was a pretty tough-to-tune LaPetite Kimball baby 
>grand, however NOT untuneable in any way. Pins were very "Kimball-esque"- 
>tight and consistent.    Would you have charged these folks for the pitch 
>raise, having already paid for something they obviously "didn't get"?
>
>          ""   ""?  les bartlett 
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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