Why I'm the tuner and they aren't...

[David Love]

I also would have refused.  But I'd have charged them for the trip.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Nereson
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:09 AM
To: ilvey@sbcglobal.net; Pianotech
Subject: Re: Why I'm the tuner and they aren't...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: Why I'm the tuner and they aren't...


> OK,  I got an emergency service call at Stanford's Memorial Church.
I 
> came at 4 pm and found of the organist practicing for his performance.

> Sorry, he could not stop.
> Yikes!   You have no idea what that was like.  I had to tune it 
> somehow...SAT III.   I didn't have my magnetic mic!   Darn!   I
basically 
> tuned in between organ tones.   Imagine the reverberation of a big 
> church....yeah, it was real fun.   Amazingly, Paul Kummer, the regular

> Stanford technician, commented on how well tuned the piano was when he

> came back a few weeks later.

    I would have refused.  I mean, there's a limit.....  Could a painter

reasonably be expected to paint a house while you paint right over him
on 
the same wall with a different color?   Do you turn all your sprinklers
on 
full blast when the lawn service guys are tryna mow the lawn?  Let the 
church endure an out-of-tune piano for one service -- it won't kill
them. 
Maybe next time they'll not schedule playing and tuning for the same
time 
slot.
    I know there are those who can tune through anything, but why should

they put up with it?  If they make the job harder for you, it should be
at 
least $20 extra, and that's being lenient.
    --David Nereson, RPT 


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