Joe: What about the customer who doesn't want to take the chance on breaking strings. I did a Cable spinet last week that was down, already had 3 broken strings and the customer (rightfully) didn't want to spend any more on it than necessary. Should I tell her to forget about her recently started piano lessons and trash the piano? Or offer to bring it up, break some strings and fix them at my expense? Some of our dogmatic rules ocaisionally have to get modified out in the "real world". dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/9/02 at 11:08 AM Joseph Garrett wrote: >Wim, >You are such a woose! "Why chance it"?!! to get the piano at pitch and have >the tuning be more effective and relevant to making MUSIC! I maintain, if >the piano, (the whole piano), cannot be tuned to standard pitch or it's >designed pitch, then it needs, either to be repaired or trashed. It's just >that simple. Any tuner that, without total knowledge of the customers >needs, >(current and future), tunes a piano a 1/2 tone flat, usually because he >doesn't want a string to break, is not a good tech IMO. This is usually >because that tooner does not carry any string stock, etc. and besides, >usually couldn't fix a hang nail w/o drawing major blood. >Just MHO. >Joe Garrett, RPT _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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