"should I stay or should I go?"

[John Ross]

Hi,
Quite a few times I go to tune a piano, and it has been moved out to the 
middle of the room.
They say they have never seen a piano tuned, and thought it had to be away 
from the wall.
I always help them move it back before tuning, unless it is a hardwood 
floor.
I NEVER move a piano that is on a hardwood floor, I let them move it, or 
have it moved, anytime it has to come out.
One tuner I know, just moved one side out from the wall, to check for a 
crack in the soundboard. He put a mark in their floor, it cost his insurance 
company, over $3000, to repair it.


John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: "should I stay or should I go?"


>
>>  Along with quiet issues is the one about removing the
>>200 little knick-knacks that are carefully arranged on top of the piano.
>>
>>
>>David Love
>
>
> Good luck on that one. On the seventeenth tuning appointment, I still 
> hear, "Oh yes, you'll need all that stuff off of the top, won't you?"
>
> Tuning is, unfortunately, categorically lumped in with other "service" 
> work like carpet cleaning, explosive demolition, framing wall partitions, 
> roofing, and poisoning the area to kill suspected or potential bugs. So 
> they tend to schedule as many "service" jobs as possible at the same time 
> for their convenience. If they can't find someone to run a Skill saw while 
> you're there, they will be overcome with an irresistible need to clean 
> something - noisily and with evil smells, if possible. At least it's 
> sometimes entertaining as well as annoying. Did you ever watch someone's 
> face through the glass as they wash windows? It's a lot like the faces 
> people make feeding babies.
>
> Ron N
>
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