String Replacement

[Ron Nossaman]

> Lovely :-(  And what can you say to the customer?  I tuned an ancient
> Chickering for a concert at a local church.  This piano had disasterous
> repairs and  needed a lot of help.  I felt like putting a disclaimer on the
> piano for the very talented performer that was to play that evening.  "Don't
> blame me, I only tuned it!"
> 
> Debbie


You don't even have to tune them to be blamed. I once 
condemned the same piano three times in less than a year 
without even laying tuning hammer to it. I first saw it and 
pronounced it dead after it was "donated" to an up scale 
nursing home. The second owner (who purchased it from the 
nursing home) was told that I'd "worked" on it, and the third 
(who purchased it for considerably more than the previous 
owner had paid), that I'd "rebuilt" it. For a while there, I 
half expected it to show up again with my name cast into the 
plate. It was like an Indiana Jones movie, where the dead 
always attack as he passes by.
Ron N