birdcage

[Kit Cleworth]

>Any "tech with plenty of birdcage experience" will likely respond: "would
>really like to service another birdcage, but golly gosh, I'm double-booked
>up 24/7 for the next 1,000 years!" If you are busy enough, then simply make
>the choice: them 'em yes or no. However, if I may suggest, I think it is one
>of those "rights of passage" for any piano technician to service at least
>one birdcage.


Amen.  I reconditioned one when I was just starting out and had nothing 
more constructive to do.  Then I made the mistake of selling it.  Now I'm 
trapped into servicing the thing until one of us dies.

Kit Cleworth