[CAUT] websites

[maxpiano]

I even tried a monkey wrench as a kid.

I got one of those allen wrench jobs when I was in high school for 69 cents from Western Auto--the allen wrench was the handle for a whole assortment of tips.  I still have it in my box of wrenches somewhere.  I tried to tune a friend's piano with it after borrowing the tuning fork from the high school science lab.  After several bass strings bit the dust in the bottom of the Behr Bros. upright, I "retired" from the profession.  Until several years later when I got proper instruction from the technician who came regularly to the college where I studied.

My second retirement has not yet come up, though I have been drawing social security for ten years.  But that's a different subject.

Bill Maxim, RPT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cy Shuster 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] websites


  Isaac Sadigursky has a wonderful collection of homemade tuning tools that he's confiscated from customers over the years.  He brought them to the national (annual?) convention a while back.


  My favorite was a standard small socket from a socket wrench set, with an allen wrench inserted into the socket end.  The customer used the square hole in the socket to fit over the tuning pin! :-(


  Anything is foolproof until a fool comes along...


  --Cy--


  Cy Shuster, RPT
  ABQ, NM
  www.shusterpiano.com


  On May 15, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Jim Busby wrote:


    Here’s all you need to toon your own piano….

    http://free-info-pages.com/images/p000.jpg

    I can’t believe what’s on line.

    Jim Busby

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