Customer ripped off?

[Les Smith]

On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Dave Swartz, RPT wrote:

> At 02:17 PM 3/3/96 -0700, you wrote:
> >Bobby writes:
>
> I had a situation this week involving a Whitney spinet.
>
> Les writes:
> >
> >> Any attempt
> >to raise the pitch (what is it, down a 3rd or more?) back to A-440, will
> >surely result in numerous broken strings, given the amount of rust on the
> >strings and pins
>
>  Dave writes:
>
>        I found that if you cut all the bass strings off this type piano, you
> will greatly lower the inharmonicity.  Besides, one may compose an abstract
> Bartok type piece...entitled....Piano InHarmon in E flat minor for piano and
> wire cutters.
>
> Yuk Yuk
>
> Dave Swartz
>
Good point, Dave! But why stop with just the bass strings, when you can
eliminate the problem altogether, by removing ALL the strings? BTW, do
you think a frustrated tuner could have been the one who set the fire in
the first place? What he may have had in mind was a John Cage-type compo-
sition entitled "Concerto Grosso for Piano and Blow-Torch"!

Les