Unsolicited compliment and a thought on temperament.

[Iñaki Coello]

It is nice for a tuner feel that people recognize your work. People really never note when their piano is out of tune in my deaf country.

 In Spain this is very common, specially in my area, where exists a lot of "tuners" but really no more than shop (bazar) owners, who says:

-  "look: your piano is new: it will not needs tuning until, at less 5 years. and Don´t worry: as You bought me your piano, I will tune it for free:  Of course: a tuning will take no more time than 10 minutes. Your neighbour tuner needs one hour and half!? Really?, well, are you sure he knows what he is doing?, ten minutes are enough for a tuning: he just want to charge more, for that he pass all that time at your neighbour´s home: the tunings are FREE"

or shop arguments like this:

-  "I sell you my first quality Krause german piano, but nobody more than me in this country are trained by this factory: Just me can tune your piano: I will go every year to your home, and I will charge you directkly to your bank account by this manteinance contract, and I make you the bank charge before tuning, of course, atthe beginning of the year. Of course I can tune in 15-20 minutes: Krause trained me for that. Remember: No more than me can service your piano (or that tuner can say you this Krause piano is really a Second Hand Russian Cherny/Lirika/Tchaika with a shop made tag for change the brand, and I will lose your confidance: Really Krause brand doesn´t exist: E. Krause brand were out of bussiness in 1931?)

I have to deal with this kind of thoughts here, because the shop owners doesn´t want nobody more working at their town in opiano bussiness, even when they does not sell pianos and just service them. I have toi look for my work in a radius of 150 Km. or even more for obtain a tunimng appointment, working in, at less ,7 towns near mine.

Of course, when you finnally obtain a tuning, when the costumer feel (by casuality or publicity) that the shop owner can be wrong and a profesional tuning and piano manteinance needs more than 10 minutes, and you work, they use to recognize your work, specially when better is the piano and better the pianist´s level: they feel the piano like another: another sound and of course another touch when you simply adjust the never done waist touch adjustment.

I will continue fighting... 

Iñaki Coello Gómez
Valladolid. Spain


> Brian Trudgeon <briant@inet.co.za> pianotech@ptg.org Unsolicited compliment and a thought on temperament.Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:10:49 +0200
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>
>Greetings list.
>
>I have been a lurker for a number of months now.
>
>Having had my piano in storage for approximately eight years I moved it into
>our home earlier this year, and after such a period of neglect I decide I
>would educate myself about pianos/piano tuning before going through my usual
>process of picking up the yellow pages and selecting the piano tuner who
>would do the job the soonest. On the web I encountered www.ptg.org and was
>intrigued to see it was as much science as art at which point I decided to
>look for a RPT in South Africa (and subscribe to the list) I found the name
>Brian Lawson, one of perhaps two RPT's in South Africa. I dropped him an
>E-Mail and to my surprise found he lives with in walking distance from my
>home. ( To think I went all the way to the USA to locate a person living in
>my own suburb)
>
>Finally three weeks ago he came to tune my piano, and all I will say is that
>he is a credit to the profession. I had no idea the piano would sound so
>good after having stood neglected for so long. I was also astounded at how
>the lost motion being adjusted for, improved the touch of the piano. Brian
>also took the time to field a heap of questions. 
>It was nice to see someone pay such attention to my piano. As a consumer it
>was nice to feel like I got more than my moneys worth. Thanks Brian. For
>anyone who is interested the pitch raise and tuning was accomplished using
>one mute (papps I think), hammer and tuning fork.
>
>
> It left me with some points to ponder. My piano sounds nicer than it ever
>did after any tuning it had before. I can't make up my mind if it was badly
>tuned previously or if possibly it was tuned to Reverse Well (as per Bill
>Bremmer's explanation of how this happens)? . At least I have learnt that
>all is not "equal" as one browses through the list of piano tuners  in the
>yellow pages. From here on out I will only call one technician.
>
>
>I promise the Piano won't be left for eight years again, that was purely
>circumstantial. Prior to storage it was tuned at least once a year
>
>Thanks to all on this list. It's nice to see people passionate about what
>they do as opposed to viewing it as just another job. 
>
>Brian Trudgeon.
>switching to lurk mode.
>http://www.geocities.com/furzl123
>
>You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come
>in contact with a new idea.
>-  Anonymous




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