When is it enough?

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi Karen:

You did exactly the right thing. If you had tried to go back over everything
this would have made it worse, because the piano was in the change mode and
there is no way of knowing where and how far it would go. Just touching 
up the remainder was the smartest thing you could have done. Rejoice, you
have "earned your wings".

When you come back the next time, you will be surprised at how well the
piano has done.

You can not be held responsible for the heater or cooler selection unless
you want to spend the rest of your life in that home. Pianos will go out 
of tune and back in by themselves from one season to the next, or from one
one temperature setting to the next and back.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 Kgj38@AOL.COM wrote:

> I tuned a Kohler and Campbell upright yesterday.  I had a time limit of how
> long I could stay, about 2 hrs and 15 minutes.  So I set about to do the best
> I could the fastest I could.  (I tend to be the pokey type tuner).  It hadn't
> been tuned for several years, but the pins were tight and it seemed to be
> going well.  Until:  the lady of the house decided she was cold upstairs
> (piano is in lower level of a split) and she cranked the heat up.  The warm
> air proceeds to blow all over the 3/4s tuned piano.  By the time I got
> finished and started checking my work with my accutuner, it had already sunk
> flat again.  I was almost out of time and couldn't go through the whole
> keyboard again so I tweaked the ones that I could and pronounced it "good
> enough".
> 
> Not sure how I should feel about that and am looking for advice on when
> "enough is enough".  The customer thought it sounded fine, but I left feeling
> as if I hadn't done my best.
> 
> Waiting for input,
> 
> Karen Johnson
> ptg associate
> Rochester, MN
>