ethics discussion to the next level

[Farrell]

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So what on earth is this all about?

Terry Farrell

  Why would someone change tuners?  Do you recognize yourself in the =
following story?  If so, it is time for a drastic change.

  The tuner arrived in a very loud, very beat up truck that leaked oil =
all over the driveway.  He came in wearing shabby work clothes that =
judging from the smell had not been washed for a week and were probably =
slept in the night before.  His personal hygiene was such that the lady =
of the house had to use her dish towel to breathe and left the room =
quickly after showing him to the piano.  For three hours after he left, =
the room smelled of him even with all the windows and doors open. Of =
course the open windows changed the temperature in the piano =
drastically. =20

  His tool box was huge and metal.  It was so big and heavy that he =
seemed to have trouble carrying it and left several dents in furniture =
in the path from front door to piano.  His box was placed on the ivory =
carpet and when he left it left several spots.  When he picked it up to =
go it pulled a long piece of yarn out of the carpet.  When he put his =
tools on the piano he left several scratches on the piano case.  While =
tuning, he knocked several spots into the gold plate that are now black. =
=20

  When he replaced that string that has been gone for several years, =
there is something different about it.  It does not look like the ones =
around it.  It wraps around the tuning peg real funny.  There is a =
little sharp piece of piano string that sticks out of two of those =
tuning pegs now.  The wire on all the others is all going around the pin =
and bunched together, but his new one has the wire crossing itself and =
all spread out.

  The hammer he replaced sticks way up above all the other hammers.  It =
rubs the one next to it.

  When he tuned the piano the lady noticed that he did not tune the top =
five or six notes.  They were fine, he said.  The lowest bass notes he =
did not bother with either,  You can't hear those anyway, he said.

  When the lady got the windows all closed having aired out the room, =
she sat down to the piano to play her nicely tuned piano.  She played a =
while and decided that tuning it really did not make that much =
difference.  She wondered why people always say you should tune your =
piano regularly.  It did not sound all that different and that one that =
had the missing string was all wonky sounding.  She decided that it =
would be a really long time before she ever had another tuner out to =
work on her piano.


  D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
  www.thepianoworld.com=20

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