Sounds like my kind!!! I'll bet she's a vegetarian, too!!! Thump > On 1/13/2003 at 8:07 PM Kevin E. Ramsey wrote: > > > David, don't go all wobbly on us now, buddy. You > just got an > overly sensitive "artist" , and by the way, I agree > perfectly with > Wim's assessment, and I'm sure the piano sounded > just wonderful. If > they wouldn't let you work with the performer to > bring it back to > something that would have made them happy, then > they're just "nuts", > and I wouldn't worry about it too much. > I recently got a service order to set up a new > Disklavier C2 in > North Scottsdale. (Think Beverly Hills). It seems > that these people > demanded that the piano be delivered in the box. > They just didn't > want any piano that had been on the floor, and they > didn't want to > come down to the shop and watch it being uncrated, I > guess. So I go > up there, it's about an hour drive, and the lady of > the house comes > out to greet me, from the garage. She asks me if I > can take off my > shoes in the garage, and I say "of course". She's > not oriental, but > if she wants me to leave my shoes in the garage, no > problem. When I > walk into the house, it's all tile. I'm starting to > think; "what, I'm > going to get her tile dirty?" > I get to the piano, and go to put my tool cases > down on the tile, > and she says, "You can't put your cases on my floor, > I don't know > where they've been." (OOhhh, starting to get scary > here, says I. ) > I also have a nice table that I use to go over the > regulation on, and > I guess the rubber casters are not Kosher either. > I usually have a cut down moving pad that I > carry with me, but > today, I'm driving my Tacoma truck, so she finds > some construction > paper and I put that down. I took the case parts off > the piano, and > go to put them on the carpet in the sunken lower > living room, and she > says; "Don't put that there, you'll leave dents in > the carpet." > Well, at least I don't have to worry about her > coming at me with an > ax, she'd get blood everywhere! > So, finally we have it all worked out, I'm going > over the action > regulation, pitch raising, seating strings, doing > software updates, > calibrating the disklavier,,,,etc. etc. etc. > I finally get all done, I just want to go over > the tuning once > more, and do a little voicing; it's a lively room, > what with all that > tile and all those windows, but you know, after an > hour drive and 3 > 1/2 hours of working on her piano, I've got to get > rid of some of > that coffee that I had on the way to the job. So I > ask her, "May I > please use a restroom?" > I can tell you, I've never felt such a sense of > shock as when she > told me; "No, because then I would have to clean it, > there's a > construction site about seven or eight lots down, > and I think that I > saw one of those portable bathrooms down there." So > I said, never > mind, I'll be done here in a couple of minutes. > Finished a quick > final tuning and got the heck outta there. I would > have been glad to > have voiced it, but you know, if you're that rude, > too bad. > > I realize your experience was totally different, > and that you're > taking it as a personal affront to your abilities, > but from what I've > read, you seem to have more than enough confidence > and knowledge to > succeed in whatever you do. Hey, we deal with people > all the time, > some people go through a lot of techs mostly because > they can't find > anyone who can put up with them. > > I hesitate to put my name to this, but I am > Kevin E. Ramsey > > _____________________________ > David M. Porritt > dporritt@mail.smu.edu > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, TX 75275 > _____________________________ > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC