[pianotech] One of dem days

William Monroe pianotech at a440piano.net
Thu Jan 29 07:28:20 PST 2009


Hee, hee,

I like to think I'm just being proactive in not allowing others to ever take 
me too seriously.

WRM



> William,
>
> you are a hell of a man to admit this!  The same incident played out for 
> me about 2 weeks ago.  A M&H bb I have in to restring.  The piano belongs 
> to Nevin Essex who's another technician in town.  He was in the shop with 
> me and we had put in all of the perimeter screws and snugged them up 
> nicely. Then Nevin recalled that he had not put in the nose bolts.  Just 
> to add another insult to the situation we discovered that he also hadn't 
> drilled through the new board.  Embarrassing!  But hey, its his piano, his 
> board, I'm just the stringer...
>
> Shawn Brock, RPT
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Monroe" <pianotech at a440piano.net>
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:51 PM
> Subject: [pianotech] One of dem days
>
>
>> Ever have one of those days?  Mine was today.  Shop day.  Feeling pretty 
>> good about myself, the piano, etc.  Piano is nicely refinished, plate 
>> goes back in without incident, perfect.  Used my little rim guards that I 
>> made (gleaned from Alan McCoy - thanks Alan!)  So perfect, awesome, not 
>> even close to any scratches.  Plate screws, perimeter bolts in, snug.
>>
>> Time to put the nuts on the nose bolts.......  Nose bolts?  What 
>> the.......
>>
>> Who was responsible for that?!?!?!
>>
>> Grrrr.  I don't mind being reminded that I'm not perfect, but did it have 
>> to be like that?  At least I didn't glue in the other music desk glide 
>> yet. <G>
>>
>> On the up-side, I got to use my new Agraffe spinner (thanks again, Ron 
>> N.) today.  Hot diggity, right next to, well, cashews and chocolate, I'm 
>> told.
>>
>> William R. Monroe




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