[CAUT] they stayed :o

[Avery Todd]

Susan,

Lucky you. On one of my first paying jobs, a treble string broke. I 
still didn't have piano wire or tools to do it with. :-(

Avery

At 12:41 PM 9/2/2005, you wrote:
>At 12:11 PM 9/2/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>>In my mere 10 years of working on pianos I never had *2* people 
>>planted on a couch and chair watching me through the WHOLE thing.
>
>I was only months out of training when I did a service call and 
>tuning on a brand new Steinway B (this wasn't typical of my business 
>at the time ...) The couple sat there on the couch, smiling and 
>looking at me, as I took the case apart and pulled the action, 
>papered a rubbing wippen, etc. That was in 1980, but you notice I 
>still remember the details <grin>. I was thinking about how it would 
>look if a keyblock came off the fallboard and landed on the bench or 
>my toe. I was thinking of how it would be to break off a hammer in 
>front of them. I was wondering if I looked as green as I was. 
>Apparently not ... or they just didn't tell me.
>
>
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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4017