That's what I'm talking about, On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote: > Dear Baffled, > > It's certainly not for the money. Nor is it to "appease" someone's demands. > > It's a different game than the "long big grand" game, but not an unworthy > one, IMO. It calls for ingenuity. Make someone's day! Play the ball where it > lies! Get that little hummer up and doing in no uncertain terms, in a way > which will keep it humming along for eons! And all in a short enough time > that you don't need to develop a martyr complex, and for a price your > soon-to-be-eternally-devoted customer can manage. Save the ship! Even if > it's a little rowboat! And then there's the slightly clandestine joy of > succeeding where so many others have failed, or just turned up their noses, > the ignorant helpless conceited louts! > > So, in the unlikely event you book work on one of these wrecks by mistake, > what are you going to do? Waste your time going to the house by doing > nothing once there? Disappoint the humble but hopeful owner, who isn't > really expecting a miracle, but hoping against prior experience to get one > anyway? Leave the little thingee sitting there in its dust and misery, with > the pedal hanging down like the tongue of a dead animal, when some stupid > five-minute epoxy and a little deft innovation can get it up and running in > fifteen minutes? > > Have you watched any McGyver episodes lately? (Netflix carries them ...) > Fixing these tiny wounded warriors is a little closer to McGyver's world > than to a world-class piano designer's. > > sssssssssssssssssssnnnnn > > P.S. Putting the bridge pins in a split bridge here, and there, and over > there (wherever works best) is not a SHABBY repair! It's a highly practical > but unsightly repair. If done right, it should hold up to whatever comes its > way for decades, certainly far longer than the original > geometrically-challenged bad factory workmanship. Luckily it's out of sight. > The other option is the landfill. That's even more unsightly. > > > > > On 11/11/2010 9:06 PM, Ron Nossaman 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/20101112/18999ff0/attachment.htm>
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