Yeah I didn't actually write what I'm being quoted as saying but I'm gettin a lot of mileage out of it anyway! Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Delwin D Fandrich <del at fandrichpiano.com> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 9:56 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] The high cost of trying to save money (was: NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers) 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…. ddf 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 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) 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) ... Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110213/2466c9a1/attachment.htm>
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