This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Terry, Yeah, it is best if nobody sees you. The owner of the "wrong" house was = down the street and saw me. As I walked out of her house and across the = driveway, she drove up and tried to hit me with her car! (I'm glad she = didn't have a gun!) I thought about her reaction and came to the = conclusion that she was probably horrified because her house was an = absolute pit and she mistook me for Martha Stewart. :-) =20 Not long after that I was attacked by a gander while making my way from = my car to a farmhouse. That was just after one of those articles came = out about piano tuning being one of the most stress free jobs......... Barbara Richmond, RPT still watching out for those "killer" octaves somewhere near Peoria, IL=20 ".....first clue that I was in the wrong place was that there was no = piano!" Is that anything like (for a male) walking into a restroom in an = unfamiliar public facility and not seeing any urinals? (Then hoping = nobody is outside the door as you run quickly back out the door of the = ladies restroom!) Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Barbara Richmond=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:55 PM Subject: Re: Irate Customer Terry, You tuned for a private customer today, Sunday? Like wow, man. Your suggested appropriate response seems reasonable. Don't worry = about those "distinct tones." Be calm, explain it as best you can and = be firm. Good luck! =20 I made it a rule that the customer (or the pianist, if it wasn't a = kid) always had to be around to let me in for the first appointment so = we could check the piano out together before I started working. = Although your situation isn't exactly how and why I first learned this, = I've found after time it's still a good rule for a number of reasons, = including----one day I walked into the wrong unlocked house (small town, = no house numbers, and even though you don't live there, the customer = assumes you know all the landmarks in town, etc.). I won't go into = details here......but my first clue that I was in the wrong place was = that there was no piano! :-) =20 Another embarrassing moment (oh, that would be lesson learned) in = the life of... Barbara Richmond, RPT what address was that? somewhere near Peoria, IL ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Farrell=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Irate Customer Hello PianoList folks. I'm looking for any suggestions to sooth an = irate customer - she just called and left a message - I'll have to get = back to her soon. I tuned a Yamaha GH1 today (so-so condition). New customer = "graduate of Puerto Rico Conservatory". I sat down on bench & hit first = key - BUZZZZZZZZZZZ. Found a half-dozen keys that made a nasty = soundboard buzz. Found a rib I could press on while striking key that = stopped the buzz. Lady was not home so I called hubby over to ask if = wife had complained about buzz. He said he heard it when I demonstrated = it, but she had not mentioned it. So she just calls now and said she played her piano. She is not = happy at all. She said there were one or two keys that made a little = buzz previously, but now about 20 notes make a big buzz and she is in = tears. I had told the hubby when I was there earlier that if the buzzing = bothered her, there were some repairs that we could try to get rid of = the buzzing. He said he would mention it to her. It would seem to me = that the appropriate response from me is to offer to make an appointment = to come and repair her loose rib and charge her a normal fee for doing = so. Her message has the distinct tone of "my piano was fine before YOU = touched it". Any thoughts before I step into the fire? Thanks. Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/68/88/ff/fe/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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