Clyde Hollinger wrote: > Hazen, > > I never saw anything quite *that* bad. It makes you wonder if the > person who did the string work was perhaps not even a tuner of any > type. Maybe the strings even came from a junk piano somewhere; or > were they universal replacement strings? Still, that workmanship > sounds so poor that anyone able to think clearly should have been able > to do better. > > Regards, > Clyde > Aint it the truth Clyde ??... sigh... would that more customers take note of such and begin to be a bit more loyal towards the tech who does the job right... or at least reasonably so... RicB > > HazenBannister@cs.com wrote: > >> Hi list, >> I went to a new church today for the first time.The call was, they >> had a concert coming up June 8th, and wanted their piano tuned,and >> it had a broken string.WRONG! It had 4 broken strings,it had about 5 >> or 6 strings where the windings were off as much as 4 or 5 inches.It >> had about 7 or 8 strings,with the old string (about a 5 or 6 inch >> piece of it sticking straight up, crumpled,twisted on the end)still >> on under the new string.I have'nt taken one off yet,and I can only >> guess from looking,that the old piece is halfway through the becket, >> and the new string is halfway in the becket, under the the >> windings.Who would have thunk it! Has anyone ever seen this,I will >> take a picture with my digital camera when I go back.Boy,do I look >> good following these guys! It looks like a little stand of tree's >> growing out of the plate.I guess you know what the bottom of the >> music rack looks like. >> Life is good, >> Hazen Bannister > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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