Ron... You go man. Our prospective clients don't often know how junkie some of the stuff they own is. If it looks like a piano, has keys ...well it must be a piano. Or not! Polite education and " I can't in good conscience work on this." Is the answer. Usually I am thanks for my frank honesty. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: I wonder about the current thread on split bridge repair. Is it worth fixing or not? If so, wouldn't you make a new bridge? It's easier than recapping in situ, and a real fix. The other options are, at best, lesser approaches. I confess, I don't understand the attitude that the piano is absolute junk, but the owner wants it fixed, and has no money, so the tech should do the shabbiest repair possible to appease a customer who has no idea what the choices made actually mean, as long as the tech can make a buck doing it. Is there no line beyond which NO is the right answer? Can't we decline to do junk repairs on junk pianos as a matter of professional pride and ethics, or are these outdated concepts when a check is to be had? I understand that we don't always have the luxury of high level choice, but shouldn't we at least try to appear to be possessed of professional standards to some degree? Or is it all just the chance to generate income, regardless of how? How does this serve either us, or our profession in the long run? I read all sorts of whining that we aren't taken seriously as true professionals, and we don't get the pay we deserve as such, followed by suggestions for repairs that anyone aspiring to professional status would, or at least should, have nothing to do with. Baffled, long and often, Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101112/985b7ddf/attachment.htm>
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