Hey David, It does happen, seems that very few of us will go the the grave having never had a situation go sour for one reason or another. If it helps, I once had a piano accepted as "perfect-don't do anything but tune". So I didn't, I just tuned it and left everything but the pedal squeak alone. Two hours later, the artist sits down at the piano and immediately asked me if I had lacquered it up! They were convinced I had ruined the piano's tone, and I was never believed, even though I had done nothing. The artist went on their way the following day, and the owner finally accepted that it wasn't the piano or me that had changed. Ed Foote RPT www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/ www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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