[CAUT] The high cost of trying to save money (was: NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers)

[Tom Gorley]

Hey, that welding story by Israel is not the only one like it.  Ken Kadwell had the same experience in the 70's.   ---Tom Gorley


On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

> It was a small town in North Dakota. I don’t remember the name of the farmer but the piano tuner was my brother, Darrell. As I recall the tuning pins were extremely loose (as would be expected in a farm house in N.D.) and he was having a hard time getting some of them to hold. He explained about new pins, etc., to no avail. I think it was the next year that he was called back, not to tune the piano, but to repair a “few” broken strings. You can check with him for the rest of the story….
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> ddf
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> Delwin D Fandrich
> Piano Design & Fabrication
> 620 South Tower Avenue
> Centralia, Washington 98531 USA
> del at fandrichpiano.com
> ddfandrich at gmail.com
> Phone  360.736.7563
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> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Israel Stein
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 7:56 AM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: [CAUT] The high cost of trying to save money (was: NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers)
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> Then there is the one about the farmer out in the boonies who hired the "best tuner in town" to tune his wife's piano. The guy did the best tuning he could, collected his fee after convincing the suspicious farmer that it was indeed the best possible tuning on that piano and went home. Next day he got a callback from the farmer complaining that the piano sounded terrible. He went out to check the piano - and found a black spot next to each tuning pin. The farmer welded each tuning pin to the plate... The story might be apocryphal, but it does illustrate to what lengths ignorant people will go to save a few bucks at the expense of a service provider (and often, their own property or well being) ...
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> Israel Stein

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