Appearance

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

Ed,

Snow and slush ARE beautiful!!!  It's the best kept secret in Wisconsin.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: <A440A@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: Appearance


> inre dress, Gina writes:
>
> >It all depends...
> >On what works for the individual. :-)
>
>     Yea verily!   After ruining enough clothes with dirt in the pianos, I
> began wearing one piece jump suits with the business name over the pocket.
> (Wear-Guard, about $27).   Customers love it, even strangers talk to me in
> supermarket check-out lines, and there is always someone at a gas station
> that expects me to fill their car up for them!  I write the cost off
totally
> as a business expense, of course.  I can also get dressed in about two
> minutes, with no thought to "matching".  Fashion may or may not be my
> strongest point.
>     There is a curious juxtapostion between this "industrial"  appearance
and
> the preconceived notion of what "the piano tuner" should look like that
tends
> to let me start off with a clear slate.  I guess it makes a visually
neutral
> first impression and how things go depends on myself and what I say.  It
> doesn't hurt that there was a  piano butcher in the area that always wore
a
> three-piece suit and played well enough to impress, for a while.
>     I think the shoes are probably the most important part of any outfit,
> though.  They gotta be either shined or, if your feet like the New Balance
> shoes like mine do, clean as new.   And yes, I make sure that there are no
> holes in the socks, ( but am I the ONLY person that has whacked my big
> toenail into the front edge of a worn, sharp, damper pedal???)
>
>  Then Gina writes:
> >Of course, we Southerners are more casual today, especially since the
influx
> > of all the rest of the country who has recently discovered who
wonderfully
> > beautiful the South is. :-)
>
>   Shhhhhhh!  Do you want all them infiltrators moving in?  Just let'em
keep
> on thinking that snow and slush is beautiful.  (:)}}
> Regards,
> Ed Foote RPT
>
>