---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 11/26/2003 2:06:24 PM Central Standard Time, jminor@uiuc.edu writes: Our department secretary forwarded a request for private tuning in his home recently. Here is the meat of our email exchange: ME: I received your email from the music department. What kind of piano do you own? Do you need a tuning only, or more extensive work? I do some outside tuning, so let me know what you need. HIM: The piano is a small upright, I think I've heard it called a spinnet or something, but I'm not familiar with piano lingo. I believe the brand is Acrosonic by Baldwin. It's fairly old, been in the family for a while and just arrived at my house. As far as I can tell it only needs tuning. I just learned that it's best to let the piano sit for a month and acclimate before tuning it, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or not? ME: Sounds fine. How about a tuning in a few weeks at x time and x date? HIM: How about giving me a price and some references I can call first? [I gave this quite a bit of thought and came up with the following] ME: I assumed you had been referred to me. I do private tuning by referral only. Sorry for the confusion. END OF THE STORY! John If you were in private practice, this obviously would not have been a good reply. But since you work for a university, I don't see any reason why your answer isn't appropriate. On the other hand, all you needed to do is give your price, and tell him to call the music department. :) Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/5e/ac/18/65/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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