Standing Room Only

[Michael Magness]

On Feb 10, 2008 9:35 AM, Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
wrote:

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> 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
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>   *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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That's funny Paul, that upright with the Christmas village on it was across
the river in LaCrescent, Minnesota!
-- 
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
Michael Magness
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www.IFixPianos.com
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