Last minute calls(OFF TOPIC) reply

[pianoman]

As the song goes, "But will they love us tomorrow."
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I am a better tuner now than  ever  before"

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> From: DGPEAKE <DGPEAKE@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Last minute calls(OFF TOPIC)
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 9:40 PM
> 
> In a message dated 97-12-20 08:16:55 EST, you write:
> 
> << i'm working today on one of those calls..woman called me..*I have a
piano
>  that I want tuned for my Xmas Party on Saturday( today )..the original
call
>  came in 3 weeks ago..so I scheduled her for this past Thursday..she
admitted
>  over the phone that her piano hasn't been tuned in over 20 years and it
has
>  been moved twice..so I prepared her for the good possibility that her
piano
>  wil probably need to be pitch-corrected..
>  
>  ...I get there Thursday, and the first thing I do is play A4..it's every
bit
>  Aflat instead of A..i confirmed with the SAT..-122.4....*yes maam, it
will
>  need to be pitch-corrected*..
>  
>  ...then she says to me..*Mr.Bondi, a couple of these notes do not
repond.
>  Could you check them out for me*..sure enough, the hammers are real
sluggish
>  on return..I open it up to find it _missing_ its bridal strap..and upon
>  further investigation, found 23 more broken ones..
>  
>  ...needless to say, it will NOT be a fun day today..
>  
>  ...and I'll go on record as saying this..why are alot of these calls
that I'm
>  receiving, these last-minute-I-need-it-done-yesterday calls involve
Baldwin
>  Acrosonics..?
>  
> 
> 
> Working six days a week, I am booked through Dec. 23rd and with company
on
> Christmas, that is it for "before Christmas tunings."  Last Saturday my
wife
> took a call while I was working and a lady said she needed a tuning, a
couple
> hammers replaced, 3-4 strings broken, and must be done before Christmas! 
She
> said, you looking at about $150-200 of work and  taking about 1/2 day. 
When
> can you do it?  About the 2nd week in January. Click!
> 
> Today she received at least a dozen calls to get the piano tuned before
> Christmas!
> 
> Isn't it nice to know we are popular?
> 
> Food for thought.  Merry Christmas!
> 
> Dave Peake, RPT
> Portland, OR
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