Oh, that's where I left it...

[Alan]

I left a rather heavy pair of needle-nose pliers sitting on top of the
keys (behind the center rail pins) in a Hamilton studio. This piano is
owned by a church and is their only piano (no organ). They play it every
Sunday and on Wednesday nights.

They never called with a complaint and put off their tuning for over a
year. When they called I went to work and--right off--noticed noises and
a very heavy action in about 12 notes. Checked around and found the
tool, to my astonishment--not that I'd lost and found the tool but that
the customer never noticed it or never said a word!

It's a weird world. BTW I DO NOT LIKE TUNING STEINWAYS: That has nothing
to do with anything, it's just that I spent a long time on an old 'O'
today and was reminded once again that I ... DO ... NOT ... LIKE ...
TUNING ... STEINWAYS. Had to get that off my thorax.

Alan R. Barnard
Salem, MO

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:52 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Oh, that's where I left it...


>Hi All,
>This morning a tuned a piano which I had tuned several years ago. Not
much 
>to report on the piano...but my beautiful Renner voicing tool which
seem 
>to have walked out of my tool case some time ago, was staring right at
me 
>from the inside of the piano.
>I'm a self-confessed member of the involuntarily tool 
>donation/contribution group, a special selected group of mid-40ish
tuners 
>who have a nasty habit of leaving their best tools at customer's homes.
>Tom Servinsky, RPT


A favorite pair of pliers showed up that way after two years in the
belly 
of a Kimball. I've thought I ought to hire an elf to follow me around
and 
keep an eye on me, but I can't seem to find one with low enough
standards 
to take the job.

Ron N

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