Dumb Tuner moves -/ lost tool

[Jim Kinnear]

Carl wrote . . .
>slim, wood handle screw driver,
> which I  use to insert the tuning felt.


You use a screwdriver to push in the strip mute??
I've used a regular dinner knife, with tiny serrations for grip. It's
strong, thin, and shiny . .  nerver pulls the felt back out when moving to
the next .
I also get a lot of smiles from my customers when they see the " highly
professional tool' I am using. A good ice breaker with new clients !

I wonder what others use . . .
oh, and about lost tools, I found a capstan tool sitting in the fall board
hinge where I had placed it a year earlier one time.

Sometimes conversations with the customers are distracting to ones routine .
. n'est ce pas !!

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Jim Kinnear
www.kinnearpiano.com
Collingwood, ON, Canada

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Teplitski" <koko99@shaw.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: Dumb Tuner moves -/ lost tool


> A couple of days ago, I was at a friends house tuning his daughters
> piano. Well we were discussing golf ,
> put the piano back together, and headed straight to his workshop to see
> his new golf club, which he's
> assembling .Well, next day I'm out on a tuning and looking for my long ,
>     My favorite tool .    About
> 12 in. long,  and I use  it for everything, almost.
> Had one many years ago, and misplaced it. I'm still in mourning for it.
> Went over the places I'd been to where
> I probably  used it, and decided I must have left it at my friends
> place,  so I called him. No luck, guess it must be
> in the piano. Went back today, and took the fallboard off, and there was
> that sucker, laying on the bass end of
> the keyboard. Hardly could tell it was there when you played the keys,
> unless you happened to play the correct
> sharp key.  Also have lost a small screw driver, which I was really
> attached to. Got over that one fairly easily,
> but this one , would have been tramatic.
>
> Carl / Winnipeg
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> JAMES DALLY wrote:
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> > Phil:  I don't know how you could do that!   (I left my large case/ a
> > tall light/ in the parking lot of a church.............. fortunately
> > someone put it inside.......
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Bondi" <phil@philbondi.com>
> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: Dumb Tuner moves - was Stupid Tuner Tricks
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> >> From what I've read with this thread, it still doesn't match the
> >> level of stupid that I did just yesterday, and it reminded me that I
> >> should share that level of stupid with the rest of you.
> >>
> >> New Client - New Piano - Warranty Tuning from the dealer - nothing
> >> out of the ordinary so far, right?
> >>
> >> Well, I had another appointment after that one. When I got to that
> >> next appointment, I noticed that my little brown bag that holds my
> >> tuning lever and rubber mutes was not in my tool box. Everything else
> >> was there except that bag.
> >>
> >> I looked around the piano I was presently at..thinking I MUST have
> >> put it down somewhere.............
> >>
> >> It didn't take me long to figure out that the bag in question was
> >> left behind at the last client's home. I may have left behind a mute
> >> or 2 on the plate in the past (isn't there a Mute-Sharing program in
> >> place?!?), but never the whole bag. It was clear across town (20
> >> minutes each way - thank God it was Saturday or the time would have
> >> been more). I kicked myself for awhile, then I started laughing at my
> >> stupidity - how could I have left behind the one bag that would
> >> prevent me from doing my job? Here's my excuse:
> >>
> >> The owner of the home and I were talking as I was putting the piano
> >> back together - the owner happens to be a Boston Red Sox fan, and I'm
> >> not.
> >>
> >> I was cursed!
> >>
> >> -Phil Bondi(Fl)
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