ethics discussion to the next level

[gordon stelter]

Hi DL! You forgot ONE LITTLE THING....the piano tuner
ALSO did not wash his hands prior to going to work 
( something I always do as soon as I enter the home )
leaving greasy filth ( from his steering wheel )  and
salty sweat all over the piano's interior, causing
rust on the strings, pressure bar, etc ....
     Thump


--- "D.L. Bullock" <dlbullock@att.net> wrote:

> Why would someone change tuners?  Do you recognize
> yourself in the following
> story?  If so, it is time for a drastic change.
> 
> The tuner arrived in a very loud, very beat up truck
> that leaked oil all
> over the driveway.  He came in wearing shabby work
> clothes that judging from
> the smell had not been washed for a week and were
> probably slept in the
> night before.  His personal hygiene was such that
> the lady of the house had
> to use her dish towel to breathe and left the room
> quickly after showing him
> to the piano.  For three hours after he left, the
> room smelled of him even
> with all the windows and doors open. Of course the
> open windows changed the
> temperature in the piano drastically.
> 
> His tool box was huge and metal.  It was so big and
> heavy that he seemed to
> have trouble carrying it and left several dents in
> furniture in the path
> from front door to piano.  His box was placed on the
> ivory carpet and when
> he left it left several spots.  When he picked it up
> to go it pulled a long
> piece of yarn out of the carpet.  When he put his
> tools on the piano he left
> several scratches on the piano case.  While tuning,
> he knocked several spots
> into the gold plate that are now black.
> 
> When he replaced that string that has been gone for
> several years, there is
> something different about it.  It does not look like
> the ones around it.  It
> wraps around the tuning peg real funny.  There is a
> little sharp piece of
> piano string that sticks out of two of those tuning
> pegs now.  The wire on
> all the others is all going around the pin and
> bunched together, but his new
> one has the wire crossing itself and all spread out.
> 
> The hammer he replaced sticks way up above all the
> other hammers.  It rubs
> the one next to it.
> 
> When he tuned the piano the lady noticed that he did
> not tune the top five
> or six notes.  They were fine, he said.  The lowest
> bass notes he did not
> bother with either,  You can't hear those anyway, he
> said.
> 
> When the lady got the windows all closed having
> aired out the room, she sat
> down to the piano to play her nicely tuned piano. 
> She played a while and
> decided that tuning it really did not make that much
> difference.  She
> wondered why people always say you should tune your
> piano regularly.  It did
> not sound all that different and that one that had
> the missing string was
> all wonky sounding.  She decided that it would be a
> really long time before
> she ever had another tuner out to work on her piano.
> 
> 
> D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
> www.thepianoworld.com
> 
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