More comic relief

[Thomas Cole]

Customers who play a single note and complain that it's out of tune. Or 
they'll play a C-major triad built on C1 (on a spinet) which "sounds bad."

No shows, like the lady today who left a message later on explaining 
that she had an emergency. I wanted to explain to her that it would be 
better to tell me that *before* I make the trip up the mountain. I guess 
"emergency" means, "I don't have to look at my calendar" and "I don't 
have to pay you any money."

Stage crews who act like you aren't even there and make an unnecessary 
amount of noise.

Child humming the notes you're tuning.

"The piano's in the garage."

Callers who start off asking how much I would charge to tune their piano.

Or say, "Since you tuned my piano... "

People who schedule other service people on the same day you're coming.

People who leave the house shortly before you finish the tuning.

"Well, it sounds the same to me, but I guess it was time to be tuned."

There's more but it's late...
Tom Cole

PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com wrote:

> Aside from the middle C wippen flange (or a tenor string) breaking on 
> a 60 year old Acrosonic as you're trying out the piano after fine 
> tuning it and are ready to leave and go home for the evening, here are 
> my list of most annoying things in this business. How many can YOU 
> think of?
> Housewives taking 5 minutes to answer the door when you're ringing the 
> bell (always in mid January)
> Can't find a parking spot (big cities like NYC only)
> Customers that don't show up
> Competing with vacuum cleaners
> Competing with leaf-blowing machines in November
> Little children screaming
> Big dogs jumping all over you, little dogs barking each time you make 
> a move
> Grandfather and cuckoo clocks going off every 15 minutes
> "My husband took the check book. Can I mail it to you?"
> "The last tuner charged me only $25 for a tune-up."
>  It's 90 degrees outside, 100 in the house, and the customer is too 
> cheap to put on the air conditioner.
> Dead mouse in piano.
> Piano needs everything, especially a complete action rebuild. "My 
> children just started taking lessons,
> so make it just good enough for a beginner."
> New customer says, over the phone, "I think it's a Yamaha." You get 
> there and it's a Russian piano, vintage 1978!
>  
> Jesse Gitnik
> NYC
> Tech since 1980

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