Tuning Player Uprights

Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:51:52 -0700


Les,

Good advice!

And, you don't live in Madison!

Cheers, all!

Horace



At 05:24 PM 10/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Lar:
>
>What a treat, reading one of your far too infrequent posts! Thanks.
>To your always on the money advice, I would add the following:
>
>Whenever a tech goes to tune a player he hasn't tuned before, the
>first thing to do is nothing--DON'T TOUCH IT! First ask the owner if
>it is working. If he says no, you can proceed, but if he says yes,
>INSIST that HE demonstrate it to you before you touch it. Many times,
>when they say yes, they mean the last time it was played--which might have
>been YEARS ago--and then, when they do try to demonstate it, it doesn't
>work. In a situation like this, if you don't ask the owner to demonstrate
>it first, he'll try it out AFTER you've tuned it and BLAME YOU FOR ITS NOT
>WORKING. As Newton so wisely advises, CYA! Have the owner emonstrate the
>player FIRST!
>
>Take care, Lar
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Les Smith
> 


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