I'm sure many have stories about our interesting business. My personal favorite happened to me when I had only been tuning (for money) about 6 weeks. My teacher had made me tune 100 pianos before he would let me charge anyone. Anyway I had just arrived home after tuning a great, big old clunker, upright grand, with more cobwebs than felt inside, when the phone rang. Yes it was that client saying that after I left there was a terrible buzzing in the piano that she had never heard before. With all the nervousness of a teenager on his first date, I headed back to the client's house. About a twenty mile drive one way, I arrived was let into the house and noticed right away a drinking glass (real glass) full of marbles on top of the piano lid. She thought it was so pretty. Naturally it made a sound like a sizzle cymbal, especially when she played "them big old fat bass notes." After I removed the glass, the buzz went away. the client was very apologetic and I was so relieved I didn't even charge her for the call. Dick Day Marshall MI
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