Terry, The action I "might" be able to deal with. But I once had to "try" to tune a piano that had had that sprayed on the tuning pins to remove the rust! IMPOSSIBLE! When I finally left, about 3 hrs. later, I told her that I'd call her. Not to call me! :-) Avery At 05:51 AM 8/8/2006, you wrote: >I do hope he gives the entire action a good liberal spraying of WD40 >before he sprays his gold paint! If so, it may be the same guy up >here in Florida (USA) - maybe he winters here? > >Yeah, we got 'em here also. I think every area has one or two (or more). > >Terry Farrell >----- Original Message ----- > >We have a bloke here near us, who specialises in spraying everything >gold. He is known as "The gold spray king', and he sprays everything >from hammers to strings and pins. These are generally very old >bangers, no worth much, however he calls this 'reconditioning'. >Tuners hate him, because he rips people off, and sells these junk >pianos with the guarantee that he will give them what they paid for >it on a new piano, when ever they wish to trade in. Usually it is >not long after they have bought the crap piano, and they have no >where else to go, because their piano is worthless. Do you guys have >these idiots over there too? >We are the bogy men because we are called in to tune them, we tell >the owner that they have purchased a dud, and we leave with our >tails between our legs, after charging a call fee, and we are the >worst in the world. >The law can do nothing about him. >Most people think if it looks good, it must be good, and if it >sounds crook, then they either would not know, or explain it away >by, 'It just needs a tune"!!!! >He probably has a relation over there. >Cheers. >David Lawson Wangaratta Australia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060808/7edb413f/attachment.html
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