Voicing

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> > > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> > >
> > > I'm never lost, because everyone is telling me where to go.
> > > <G>
> 
> First, let me say... and I think I speak for more then a
> few... I am beginning to wonder when you are going to get
> there ??  :):)

Ouch Joe, boy you got me!!  Let me say that if you will read some of the e mails you will realize I speak for more than a few also.  My comments were not meant to be a criticism but simply that we could not necessarily come to your conclusion.


 
> > Joe, I don't think we can come to the conclusion, "To just stuff the action in and ask the >customer to play it, is inviting this type of dillema,".  I have had to run out to the car >and get tools only to come back and find the customer sitting and playing the piano.   It's >hard to guard the piano 
> and we certainly can't forbid the owner from playing it.

 
> Secondly... let me point out... that one COULD bring in ones
> tools, ones receipt book, ones puter, and whatever other
> professional paraphernalia one has FIRST... and THEN bring
> in the action to stuff it as it were in the proverbial
> cavacious type cavity to whit belongs itself.

I am just not that good Joe, I just can't anticipate all the tools and supplies I might need for every job.  Maybe I am working on the wrong pianos but it seems like more often than not something comes up that I couldn't foresee and I have to go out to the car.  Perhaps I should transport all my tools and supplies into the house?


> At which time
> it is appropriate... in my humble opinion, to ask the
> customer to sit and.... duely warned as to the general
> roughness of the voicing mind you, get a general feel for
> the instrument pursuant to touch and voice for the purpose
> of inviting exactly this dilemma, which could also be viewed
> as getting some sense of what the customer... who by the way
> probably and in most cases indeed is the owner of the
> instrument in question.

I don't understand, sir, then why did you say, "The one thing that has not been addressed with this thread is: Why did the customer play the piano before you were done with it? To just stuff the action in and ask the customer to play it, is inviting this type of dillema, IMHO. I always do all the fitting, regulation tweaking and minor voicing, before I let the customer play the piano."  So now you are saying you do let the customer (owner) sit and play before you do all the fitting, etc.? 

 
> When asked what she did to give her husband good luck on the
> course Jack Pars wife replied smartly that she kissed his
> golf balls, to which Johnny Carson quicky quipped... "Boy I
> bet that makes his putter stand up"
> 
> Johnny Carson show... mid 70's... she slapped and sued
> him... never heard how it all came out....but it sure was
> funny
> 
> RicB

Say what???

David Koelzer
Vintage Pianos
DFW