Oh how I wish I could say this type of thing has not happened to me. My horror story this week is the call from the party that bought a square grand from us a couple of years ago. Please don't ask why we had it. I had hoped it had disappeared forever. Now it needs a tuning and guess who they called? We sold it so obviously we should be excited about tuning it. Keith From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:28 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Reality check...Big Time! Wow, after going to one of our Vise Chancellors house today for a private tuning, I'm really glad to have my job in the School of Music. I forgot just how ugly Whitney spinets are especially when not tuned for many years (in Nebraska weather). The chancellors wife "thought" maybe it had been 4 or 5 years since tuning, but a quick check on the tuning fork says over 1/2 step flat! I remember my mentor, Steve Brady, saying if the customer can't remember how long it's been, double what they say!! :>( Every key rattles and buzzes and plays like garbage!! Since it is for a Univ. party with our Dean playing, I agreed to just tune it for my usual discounted faculty fee. Really bad idea! I left the shop at 12:30 and here it is, 4:30 just back!! Why oh why did I get myself into this one. All I did was quick PR and tune and fill follow up with a warning to the Dean! I now remember how horrible spinets are and won't tune one again, unless I'm laid off and have to go back to the self employed status. Even makes our icky 1098's look pretty nice! How spoiled we get with a decent inventory that are all kept up! Remember this you folks! Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101210/78dcb6ae/attachment.htm>
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