[pianotech] Club work

[Alan Forsyth]

I know where you're coming from on this one. The piano in the last club I worked at had about 50 cigarette stubs stuffed between the strings..... as mutes.... for all those strings that wouldn't hold in tune! Had to return 6 months later to demand instant cash payment after sending six invoices. Cruise ships and clubs don't seem to like paying up! Luckily since then the caller ID phone was invented. Strange how it is always the desperate last minute callers who are the culprits; fortunately I am not desperate.

AF
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Nossaman 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:27 PM
  Subject: [pianotech] Club work



  I hadn't gotten one of these calls in quite a while, so this was a 
  change of pace. It was in the afternoon, the guy was talking really 
  fast, and wanted a piano tuned at a club who's name I missed in the 
  torrent of syllables. I was already pretty hammered for the day, so I 
  told him I'd lost interest in club work long ago. WHY!!! Well, the 
  quality and condition of the pianos, access, noise level, getting paid, 
  and working in pitch blackness usually. IT"S MY PIANO!!! IT"S A YAMAHA 
  CP-80, AND IS FINE!!! So much for piano quality. IT MIGHT NEED SOME 
  REPAIR!!! BUT IT"S QUIET AND ACCESSIBLE, SO WHAT"S THE PROBLEM????? Ok, 
  I said, I'm done for the day, and out of town tomorrow. First chance 
  I'll have is Friday.  AAUGGGGHHHH!!! Click.

  Oh yea, I said to the dead phone, and club work is ALWAYS AN EMERGENCY!!!

  Oh well...
  Ron N

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