Don, Yeah, that would seem to be easy. Problem is their son/daughter is on this side and a very good client and source of referrals. H'mm tuning across the AM/Can border? You're just going for a day of shopping and your wife does the shopping while you pay for it ;-) If stopped, "Oh yeah, tuning is my business up there in dogsled country. That's why all that stuff is rattling around the back seat." Receipts for a couple of the newer tools might be helpful in a squeeze. As a dual Am/Can citizen, my experience is that the Canadian border Quebecous-guardettes are a lot stickier than the American counterparts. I'd be more worried about bringing everything back. If they get wise to you at the American side they'd just turn you around; after a little "brow-beating" of-course (there might be an 11 year exclusion rule too, I'm not sure if that applies to immigration of visiting). Oh, I wouldn't try this while the terrorist Threat Level is high, they've got to impress their supervisors then. I haven't been that far north in a while, are they getting the Canadians to post machine-gun armed military patrols at the border crossings up there too? Kind of funny watching teen-age Mexicans trying to look serious with their hardware down here. May the Force be with you, Andrew PS: Thanks to William R. Monroe for a detailed response. Don writes: > Hi, > > Why go back? It is not a good client with a good piano but a bad client > with something resembling a piano. > > It's of interest that you can tune "south of the border". I know that if I > tried to do that in North Dakota I'd have a heck of a time. > > There is no difference for me between a concert tuning and a regular > tuning--except that the tolerance for pitch correction is smaller--no more > than 2 cents on any note. > > At 09:34 AM 12/22/2003 -0700, you wrote: >>I've had the, um, "pleasure"...ahem, of tuning an old Whitney spinet in >>Nuevo Laredo that was 128 cents flat at A4. >>(BTW, what is the difference between a "Concert Tuning" and a >>regular tuning?) >>I had come to tune a piano after much desparate pleading and had decided not >>to porter all my tools across the border. (That's a "grey" area that could >>place tools at risk.) >>I give them the bill and then learn >>why they couldn't get a technician to come see them from Monterray (distance >>is a problem too). They had promised to be generous when trying to get me >>to come. When I wouldn't budge they suggested that I should give them a >>discount next time. >>I haven't decided that there will be a next time. >>Andrew Anderson > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. > > mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca > http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ > > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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