---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =20 Dave, =20 It isn't you...you ARE good! =20 Horace Greely recently pointed out that certain manufacturers only make =20 consoles and uprights as stepping stones to their grand pianos. You are he= lping=20 to confirm this theory. =20 When you meet one of these, your day can go south in a hurry. =20 May your days be filled with something worth tuning! =20 Dave Stahl =20 In a message dated 6/16/05 4:30:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, =20 avery1@houston.rr.com writes: Dave, =20 That must be S & S. We have one of those (OLD one!) I can sympathize!=20 Avery At 12:59 PM 6/16/05, you wrote: One must have a certain amount of confidence in his/her abilities in order=20 to go out in the world and make a living working on pianos as we do. I thi= nk=20 I normally have enough, born of 30+ years of doing this. That is=E2=80=A6= =E2=80=A6..until =E2=80=93=20 like yesterday =E2=80=93 I encounter a Famous Maker model K. I left the cu= stomer=E2=80=99s=20 home convinced that I was the worst pin twister in the state if not the=20 world! =20 What a terrible combination, that instrument. The high price (exorbitant=20 price?) combined with the Famous Maker decal on the front leads the custome= r to=20 have great expectations. Somehow the funky tone at the south end of the=20 long bridge must be the tuner=E2=80=99s fault, and the false beats mean he=20= can=E2=80=99t tune. =20 Sorry about the rant. I=E2=80=99ve resorted to simple jobs today, busing k= eys,=20 cleaning etc. Maybe I=E2=80=99ll learn this business yet! dave __________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/85/43/62/fb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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