On Feb 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Mike McCoy <mjmccoy at usa.com> wrote: > I had to kneel on a hardwood floor to tune a spinet once, same > reason...no chairs, but it was in a old Church converted to a home, > seemed appropriate. > > Mike > > > David Boyce wrote: > > Went today to a new client. Recently moved house, wanted piano tuned. > > Nice 1930s Danemann upright. > > > > There was no piano stool, so I asked for a kitchen chair or stool to > > sit on. They had none! The seat inserts were all away to be > > re-upholstered and all they had was chair frames with no seats. The > > woman was going to lay a framed (with glass) print across one of the > > chair frames for me to sit on. The neighbours were out, so she > > couldn't borrow a chair. > > > > I ended up tuning the piano standing up, but it wasn't comfortable for > > me. I'm 6'1" (182.5 cm, bearing in mind recent metric discussions!) > > > > Maybe its a good idea to carry a little folding picnic stool in the > > car in future! How prepared does one have to be? Last week I bought a > > small but powerful vacuum cleaner half-price in the supermarket for > > piano work, having recently wasted about half an hour trying to get a > > customer's vacuum cleaner to work with the nozzle attachment , when I > > was cleaning out the keybed along with some other work. I > > congratulated myself on remembering to take it today just in case > > needed for new customer. A chair would've been better. > > > > Do you ever get the feeling with a customer that they live in a > > universe slightly out of phase with yours? Today's was one of those. > > I dunno, just somehow "we're not communicatin' here". > > > > David. > > > > > Years ago I showed up at Christmas to tune an old upright to find a complete Christmas village with houses, light poles, people, trees, fences in all 150+ pieces she said, she didn't realize I would have to open it DUHHHH. I re-scheduled for January. I was once offered a sewing bench to use it seemed very sturdy but about halfway through the tuning I ended up in a heap on the floor, nothing broken on me or the bench, just all of it's hide glue joints had let go. Did I mention they lived in a very humid valley? Mike -- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080208/3f0a64d2/attachment.html
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