one of those days

[Wayne Walker]

The financial situation was not a factor. They do have money, which is why I
couldn't understand her reaction. 
 
Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: piannaman at aol.com [mailto:piannaman at aol.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:26 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: one of those days


Wayne,
 
Were these people destitute?  Sometimes we have to consider the financial
situation as well as the viability of the piano.  But when I see this sort
of instrument in a home where money is not an issue, I wonder...
 
Would people cook on a stove that has a gas leak?
 
Would people drive a car with a broken axle?
 
Would people live in a house without a roof?
 
So why do they try to play a piano that won't work or sound properly?
 
Of course, a piano that doesn't function at a proper level isn't a health
hazard, but isn't music supposed to be a thing of beauty?  Then why try to
play "music" on a thing where beauty is not an option.
 
Good luck!  Today will be better!
 
Dave Stahl, RPT

Dave Stahl Piano Service
650-224-3560
dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
http://dstahlpiano.net/






 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: wayne.w at musicstop.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 5:29 AM
Subject: one of those days



Just came from a customer with a pre 1900 Morris upright. Pianos needs
tuning and few notes not working, lady of the house tells me. I open the
piano and first thing I noticed is the big long crack in the open face pin
block. This crack cover most of the upper pins in the tenor section. There
were more short cracks thru out the block. The crack was wide enough that I
could get the blade of my jack knife in about 1/4 of an inch. Piano had
missing hammers etc..
I called the lady back into the room to show her the pin block and told her
the piano was not worth fixing. She understood, I thought until, she asked
me if I had fix the keys that were not working. I said no I didn't because
the piano was north fixing..She said that they needed to be fix as her
children were taking lesson on the piano. I explained this was not a good
piano for kids to take lesson as it was a tone down in pitch etc... "Well
this is what we got and we don't want to spent more in cased the kids lose
interest. " was her comment. "By the way you talked you don't want to work
on my piano, so you should leave" I knew I was fighting a losing battle so I
left. Makes you wondering.
 

Wayne Walker
Piano Tuner / Technician

Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service
264 Herring Cove Road
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3P 1M1
902-221-1540
902-496-0041 Fax
HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/" \nwww.musicstop.com

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