Maybe they should all try to tune their own pianos....

[bruce greig]

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Hi Dave - Reading your post about self-tuners, I recalled one instance =
from my early days - an older lady with a spinet or console which she =
called me to tune.  As soon as I played one chord and saw the condition =
of the tuning pins, I knew somebody had been at them with pliers.  But =
she was ready for my question with an award winning  performance "who do =
you suppose could have done such a thing?" "someone must have broken in, =
but why would they do this to me?" - yeah, sure, they did.  The piano =
actually tuned rather well, considering, and I never heard from her =
again.

Today I have several pianists who have tuning levers for touching up new =
strings and I don't discourage it but if they only call me every 5-6 =
years or so for a solid tuning as one did recently, I don't return the =
call.  I do have one very nice amateur musician who often pretunes =
(quite decently) his old Steinway M, getting it up and into the ballpark =
for a decent tuning - it doesn't hold well, needs repinning, actually =
complete rebuilding, so this works out well saving me an extra hour of =
hard labor, and he's not doing it because he's cheap; he has even =
apologized when he's been too busy to prepare it for me!

Bruce









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  From: Piannaman@aol.com=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:18 AM
  Subject: Maybe they should all try to tune their own pianos....


  Hi all,=20

  I sent a post a couple of weeks ago about going out to tune a piano =
for a gentleman who had attempted to tune his own instrument.  He was =
actually a very nice guy, and played the piano quite well, and because =
he had a pretty muusical ear, he thought it would be a piece o' cake.=20

  I got a call back from him yesterday telling me what a great job I =
did, and how "in tune" the piano sounds.  That kind of phone call is =
always nice to get.  But it got me to thinking...was it because he had =
attempted to achieve a good tuning on his own that he appreciated the =
work of a professional tuner?  =20

  Maybe some of our less appreciative customers should be given a tuning =
hammer and allowed to try their luck.  Anybody else ever have this =
experience?=20

  Dave Stahl 
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