When is it enough?

[Don]

Hi Karen,

You are not resposible for the environment the piano is kept in. You can
suggest. But horses and water! You did your personal best give the
constraints of the client. So don't feel bad!

At 11:40 AM 2/26/99 EST, you 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
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts

drose@dlcwest.com
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REGINA, SK
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