Leave your ego at the door

[jere fryett]

>From: Phil Bondi <phil@philbondi.com>
>Reply-To: An open list  for piano technicians <pianotech@ptg.org>
>To: Newtonville <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Leave your ego at the door
>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:34:50 -0500
>
>Hi all.
>
>Just returned from a client with a C-3. This is the 3rd time I'm back for 
>the same thing:
>
>making it brighter..only today, I voiced back 'slightly'(his words, not 
>mine) a 3-octave range to make him even happier(if that's humanly 
>possible).
>
>Well, I have to say, it is without a doubt the loudest C-3 I have ever 
>heard..and probably most of the people reading this also. I am convinced 
>this client has a hearing loss that starts somewhere around 1k.
>
>but - he's happy.
>
>would I do this to another piano to make a client happy?
>
>Yes.
>
>That has to be the bottom line. What I did to this piano goes against the 
>grain of what I have been taught and from what I have learned from all of 
>you about voicing. The voice he was after for his instrument resembles the 
>ever-popular 'bucket of broken glass' sound that the majority of us want to 
>avoid 'making' and spend more time 'correcting'.
>
>He's happy, and that is the bottom line.
>
>This is not a self-serving post..although it may be coming across that way. 
>This client was referred to me from another tech who was unwilling to make 
>him happy because what this client wanted goes against the other tech's 
>grain.
>
>Mine too, but the client is now happy.
>
>-Phil Bondi(Fl)
>
Phil,

What did you do to make it so bright?

Jere
>
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