Wow to both of these stories! -- JF On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Denise Rachel <pp-ff at verizon.net> wrote: > I arrived to > tune a piano and noticed more than the normal amount of cars around. The extended family and a hospice caregiver were in the sitting room. The wife and mother, wanting proof that life would go on without her, requested that I tune her > piano as planned. I never knew who finished first . . . . > > Denise > > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > > > Delwin D Fandrich > Piano Design & Fabrication > 620 South Tower Avenue > Centralia, Washington 98531 USA > del at fandrichpiano.com > ddfandrich at gmail.com > Phone 360.736.7563 > > *From:* Delwin D Fandrich [mailto:del at fandrichpiano.com<del at fandrichpiano.com> > ] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:41 AM > *To:* 'pianotech at ptg.org' > *Subject:* RE: [pianotech] FW: Why schedules sometimes go pfffft. - update > > I had driven some 300 miles to replace all of the tri-chord agrafes on a > Steinway B that had no end of string buzzes. I had driven down to tune the > piano and diagnose whatever might be causing the problem several months > earlier. This was during the 1970s and badly machined agrafes were only part > of this piano’s problems. But on my first trip down I had not gone prepared > to restring the tenor section of the piano. Now it was time to fix > everything. > > I arrived the day before the husband’s funeral! Family members were sitting > around in dark clothing and somber expressions. The wife was clearly > confused and distraught. And I was thinking, “Why didn’t somebody let me > know—I’d never have imposed myself on the family under these conditions.” I > apologized for my intrusion, extended my condolences and prepared to cancel > my hotel reservation and head back north. Turned out they all wanted me to > proceed. Even after explaining how disruptive my work was going to be they > would accommodate. > > Seems it was the husband who had bought the piano as a surprise for his > wife. She’d been talking about always wanting to learn to play the piano and > he figured it was about time. Though he had been virtually tone deaf with no > appreciation of music at all he had been more upset than she over the sound > of the piano and its action problems and during one of their last > conversations together he made her promise that she would get the piano > fixed and keep on playing. So it turned out that family really wanted the > piano finished before the funeral ended and he was ultimately buried. > > So, with the family as accommodating as possible, I made it with a couple > of hours to spare and everybody was as grateful as they could be under the > circumstances. Sometimes the schedule goes on…. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100202/ceec8918/attachment.htm>
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