ethical behavior

[Farrell]

Hello Don. Do you tell each customer you tune for that you will be using equal temperament guidelines to tune their piano? And if by chance you do (which I can't imagine), how do you handle the 99%+ of your clients who ask equal whaaaaaat? ("Hey dude, I just want this here pie-anner tuned, OK?")

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: ethical behavior


> Hi Bill,
> 
> Ah I see, Piano Tuning is one of the "dark arts", a witches brew that only
> the sacrosanct and initiated have any hope of understanding. These
> "secrets" should be jealously guarded! No need to inform the client of
> anything but the price--and the only reason to do that is because you wish
> to be paid. How silly of me to explain to my clients that their piano may
> sound better in a Historic temperament and offer them a choice.
> 
> I've changed the thread title--as this has nada to do with the original topic.
> 
> At 06:38 PM 6/6/02 EDT, you wrote:
> In a message dated 6/6/02 5:22:52 PM Central Daylight Time,
> pianotuna@accesscomm.ca (Don) writes: 
> 
> 
> How can your comment be seen as constructive or helpful to the orginal 
> thread Bill? 
> 
> 
> The point is that your insistence on this "full disclosure" malarkey,
> something entirely made up in your own mind, would not have merely been
> inappropriate, it would have been counterproductive and downright absurd. 
> 
> Do all the people who tune Reverse Well as their own personal alternative
> to ET *fully disclose* that fact?  Are *all* of your tunings really
> *equal*, *all* the time?  When they aren't, do you *fully disclose* that
> fact? 
> 
> Piano tuning is an art.  Therefore, certain information can and should
> remain confidential, subject to the discretion of the professional piano
> technician. 
> 
> If you think there should be some kind of rule about this, then try to get
> it passed through council.  It would never happen because it is an absurd
> idea.  So absurd, that if it ever did happen, I would proudly be the very
> first person to violate it. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
> 
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