Standing Room Only

[Paul T Williams]

Including Christmas time when entire Christmas Town is set up with the 
cotton snow, ice skaters moving and a model train going round and round. 
pw




Willem Blees <wimblees at aol.com> 
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Speaking of another universe, how many of you have approached a piano full 
of pictures, nick-knacks, and what not on top of the piano, and the 
customers asks: "Do these need to come off?" What are these people 
thinking? I had one with a fish tank on top. One of the professors at UA 
had his entire audio system on the top of the piano, including a large 
selection of records. You'd think he would know better. 

Arrrgggghhhh..

Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:31 am
Subject: Standing Room Only

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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