[CAUT] they stayed :o

[Susan Kline]

At 01:01 PM 9/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>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

<grin> I started out bringing my tuning tools in a large purse.

My first private customer had an old painted upright, some of it a perfect 
fourth flat. The rest was only down a major third. I raised it by a 
semitone per pass, and broken nothing. Even tuned it again a few times 
before I left town.

While still in the course, I did a pitch raise on a nice little 1900's 
miniature, a Bell Pianette. The owner was a voice major, and needed it to 
pitch. I broke a string. I had the gear (can't remember if I had to make 
another trip to bring it.) I removed the other side of the broken string -- 
NOT. I cut a perfectly good one just to the left of it, had to replace 
both. <grin>