Kritinn, Although not nearly as lethal as a soundboard steel, I recommend you check out Bill Spurlock's soundboard cleaning tools. spurlocktool@cs.com David I. -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Kristinn Leifsson Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 5:28 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: A funny thing happened ... off topic Hi Richard, I didn´t really put a soundboard steel through her larynx. I was diplomatic about the whole thing :) Kristinn P.S. But I whacked her with my hammer :) At 09:11 19.8.2000 +0200, you wrote: >Kristinn Leifsson wrote: > > > You know, something very similar happened to me a few days ago. I was > > tuning for a jazz gig in a café. ....snipsnip > > > > > The waitress comes to me and asks me whether I could WAIT WHILE THEY´RE > > EATING! > >Amazing stuff... I think many of us have run into that one at sometime.. Nice >reply is that you charge by the hour and its double time and a half for >unappointed delays.. grin. > > > > > Those were her last words! You can´t speak with a soundboard steel through > > your larynx! > >Course as ignorant as that all sounds I suppose we all can be pretty >dumb...er.. >from time to time.. > > > > > > > Die piggy piggy, die die! > > > > Kristinn > > > > At 19:48 18.8.2000 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >Tuning the grand wasn't hard enough with all the waite staff enroute > > >by the piano on their setup chores. It wasn't so bad either when they > > >had to shout above the tuning to carry on their conversation from across > > >the room. And when the vacuum started up, fortunately it was mostly on > > >the other side of the room. But when one waitress with a high pitched > > >voice started whining about her boyfriend I thought it couldn't get any > > >worse until she started throwing silverware into the drawer. > > > > > >At that point I had to stop and reflect, have a little chuckle; and then > > >proceed to work as fast as I could. > > > > > >Hazard pay, > > > > > >Jon Page > > > > > >PS I forgot to mention the waiter who intermittently whistled the note > I was > > >attempting to tune. I would have liked to thrown some of that silverware > > >at him. :-) > > > > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >Bergen, Norway
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