On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ruth Phillips <ruth at alliedpiano.com>wrote: > Brian, > Regarding your response to Jude Revely's comments, I did not read it as an > attack > on you, but as saying "out of your expected scope" as one called in for > tuning, not > to hang new hammers. In other words, he did not say "out of your expected > abilities". > There was no implication of inadequacy on your part. > Ruth Phillips > ruth at alliedpiano.com > > > >Brian, > > FWIW I don't read Ron's post to have anything to do with the tuning as it > arrived. We all know concert tuners are dealing with piano trench warfare. > I > read Ron's comments as more to do with the manufacturing end. The tenor > tuning problems refer to the scaling problem which I believe was quite > relevant to the thread, and the regulation and hammer hanging also seems > out > of your expected scope. > > Best, > > Jude Reveley, RPT > Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC > www.absolute-piano.com > > > > > >Jude > Well you have caught me out. Yes, I am only a part time technician who > needs > more training to understand the basics of piano technology. I thought > levelling keys had nothing to do with scaling of a piano. Now where do I > find the book that tells me where to rescale a B model whilst discussing > key > levelling. > The regulation and hammer hanging being out of my expected scope. Thank you > for lowering yourself to an insult over your opinion of my work. > > I have been in these situations often enough that I have developed a philosophy. I will do what I can in the time allotted, after that I take no responsibility. When I tuned for Jim Brickman last fall I was allowed the whole day prior to the concert however, I was infromed that day that I was to only tune, they wanted no piano servicing from me. The pianos had been rebuilt by another and he gave them a warranty so they intended to call him for servicing. I pretuned the piano then fine tuned it. I discoverd the action was terrible on the Steinway D and infromed them of it. They told me not to worry about it, that it was only used by "pop" musicians! Brickman was late arriving for soundcheck and unhappy with the tenor tone of the piano, he prefers Yamahas! I re-tuned after soundcheck in 25 minutes before the doors opened. When I tuned for George Winston he had certain "requests" that I felt weren't something I was willing to do so I ignored them and found ways to accomplish his goals without spending the time they would have required. He and I got along just fine. The only person that has managed to upset me in recent memory was a home tuning, a physician who questioned me about my standard tuning rate because the tuning only took an hour and 10 minutes. She thought I should have charged my hourly rate! I didn't know that she was a doc and her husband was a veternarian until I looked at her check after I had left. That was 2 weeks ago and I'm still PO'd!! Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090629/f2124cf1/attachment.htm>
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