Friends, My second call this morning ruined part of my day. I went in and did my initial quick assessment on a 1980 K & C spinet. Needs a pitchraise and tune, adjust letoff button on one blocking hammer, move several hammers hanging up on their neighbors, that should do it. And I gave her a price. Except.... I found out this is one of those little spinets where you can't reach the hammer flange screws well from either above or beneath, but I managed by taking out a few keys to get the clearance I needed. Went to adjust the letoff button screw and got a surprise; the thing had no threads! Now that's something I never saw before, and apparently it's been that way from new. Some previous tech tried to get it to stay in place with glue. Did you ever try to put a new letoff screw and button in a service-unfriendly spinet with the action in the piano? I was thinking some pretty dark thoughts! And lastly, a peppy little dachshund enjoyed shattering my nerves with its shrill barking from time to time. She also took the liberty to sneak my earplugs in their little plastic box out of my toolbox while neither the customer nor I were looking, made herself comfortable on the couch, chewed the box open and ate one earplug. Nice ones they were, too, from Pianotek. Fortunately I don't have many days like this. I'll have to reschedule one piano for lack of time. One day per year like this is quite enough, thank you! Did I ask her if she wanted me to call about tuning next year? Hardly! I'm not a glutton for punishment! Hoping for a better tomorrow, Clyde
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