Standing Room Only

[Mike McCoy]

I had to kneel on a hardwood floor to tune a spinet once, same 
reason...no chairs, but it was in a old Church converted to a home, 
seemed appropriate.

Mike


David Boyce wrote:
> Went today to a new client. Recently moved house, wanted piano tuned.  
> Nice 1930s Danemann upright.
>
> There was no piano stool, so I asked for a kitchen chair or stool to 
> sit on. They had none! The seat inserts were all away to be 
> re-upholstered and all they had was chair frames with no seats.  The 
> woman was going to lay a framed (with glass) print across one of the 
> chair frames for me to sit on. The neighbours were out, so she 
> couldn't borrow a chair.
>
> I ended up tuning the piano standing up, but it wasn't comfortable for 
> me. I'm 6'1" (182.5 cm, bearing in mind recent metric discussions!)
>
> Maybe its a good idea to carry a little folding picnic stool in the 
> car in future! How prepared does one have to be? Last week I bought a 
> small but powerful vacuum cleaner half-price in the supermarket for 
> piano work, having recently wasted about half an hour trying to get a 
> customer's vacuum cleaner to work with the nozzle attachment , when I 
> was cleaning out the keybed along with some other work. I 
> congratulated myself on remembering to take it today just in case 
> needed for new customer.  A chair would've been better.
>
> Do you ever get the feeling with a customer that they live in a 
> universe slightly out of phase with yours?  Today's was one of those.  
> I dunno, just somehow "we're not communicatin' here".
>
> David.
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