Confidence

[Avery Todd]

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Dave,

That must be S & S. We have one of those (OLD one!) I can sympathize!

Avery

At 12:59 PM 6/16/05, you wrote:
>One must have a certain amount of confidence in his/her abilities in order=
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>to go out in the world and make a living working on pianos as we do.  I=20
>think I normally have enough, born of 30+ years of doing this.  That=20
>is=85=85..until =96 like yesterday =96 I encounter a Famous Maker model K. =
 I left=20
>the customer=92s home convinced that I was the worst pin twister in the=20
>state if not the world!
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>What a terrible combination, that instrument.  The high price (exorbitant=
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>price?) combined with the Famous Maker decal on the front leads the=20
>customer to have great expectations.  Somehow the funky tone at the south=
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>end of the long bridge must be the tuner=92s fault, and the false beats=
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>he can=92t tune.
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>Sorry about the rant.  I=92ve resorted to simple jobs today, busing keys,=
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>cleaning etc.  Maybe I=92ll learn this business yet!
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>dave
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>__________________________
>David M. Porritt, RPT
>Meadows School of the Arts
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75275
><mailto:dporritt@smu.edu>dporritt@smu.edu
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