one of those days

[Wayne Walker]

Unfortunately I didn't get paid. The mother-in-law was suppose to paid and I
left a voice mail and hadn't heard back from her.

Wayne
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
www.musicstop.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Conrad Hoffsommer [mailto:hoffsoco at luther.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:29 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: one of those days




Wayne Walker wrote:
> 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.
>  

Someone on this list earlier gave the analogy of learning to ride on a 
bicycle with flat tires and inflating them after they learn.

My response to a similar situation many years ago was to wish them 
always the level of service they are willing to pay for. (that party 
didn't even want to pay the service call...)

-
Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204
// Fax 1-(563)-387-1076

- Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score,
- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.


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