"should I stay or should I go?"

[David Ilvedson]

Yep, I was watching the painter just above me and outside painting the window yesterday.   

David I.


----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:10:46 -0600
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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