Tools: Who Needs 'Em

[Alan Barnard]

Susan, Susan, Susan ... tsk, tsk, ... have you never multiple-folded a
piece of paper and used it as a mute? Have you never taken a large pencil
eraser and cut or filed it into a wedge? Have you never taken off a sock
and jammed it between the strings? Now THERE's a pretty picture for the
customer to walk in on!  Well .... me neither, but I thought about those
things when I forgot my tuning kit. Fortunately, I had a felt strip in the
truck.

Now I only buy felt socks.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 06/06/2005 10:34:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Tools: Who Needs 'Em
>
> At 11:20 PM 6/6/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >Has anyone ever left for a job, and forgot to shave ???
>
>
> I've never worried about shaving, but I did get all the way to the
> coast one day (1 hour drive) without my tuning kit. I had left it
> at a customer's (we chatted over Christmas goodies and watched a
> taped concert after a tuning) two days before.
>
> I had a spare hammer and tuning fork, but no mutes. I put some
> in the stringing kit after that.
>
> I felt like a prize idiot, of course. Just had to drive back
> home and come another day.
>
> Susan Kline 
>
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