Junk Pianos

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

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In a message dated 2/9/02 7:40:39 PM !!!First Boot!!!, 
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:


> Why is it so hard to throw out a junk piano? Why is it they stay around 
> 

Because there are too many tooners out there who think they can fix anything, 
and tune all pianos. Because not enough of us are telling customers they have 
a piece of junk. You don't have to tell them exactly that, but at least tell 
them the piano has outlived it's usefulness, and can no longer be tuned. The 
other problem is that as long as "sound" comes from the piano when a key is 
depressed, they think it "works." The best thing we can do is make it stop 
playing. When they are not looking, remove the action and throw it away. 

Last week my wife was asked to tune birdcage action. It was 3 steps low, and 
not enough hammers were working. She couldn't do it. The problem is, these 
people have two girls that want to take lessons from her. He's a plastic 
surgeon and his wife's a chiropractor. I told him the piano was no longer in 
playing condition, and that he should get another one. He said a blind tuner 
who tuned it three years ago said it played fine. I told him to get that 
tuner back, and make sure to have the piano raised up to A440. On Thursday 
the blind tuner is coming to do that, after which my wife will teach the 
lessons. I'll let you know what happens.

Wim 

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