-----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]On Behalf Of PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:53 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: More comic relief 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 ; lawnmowers in the summer 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." Yeah, that was in 1968. It's 90 degrees outside, 100 in the house, and the customer is too cheap to put on the air conditioner. I bought a small fan, which I keep in the car and bring into the house if needed. Dead mouse in piano. Or 3 or 4, plus a huge nest filling the entire keybed, and entire bags of dogfood transported piece by piece into the piano. Piano needs everything, especially a complete action rebuild. "My children just started taking lessons, so make it just good enough for a beginner." "Do you want an old wrecked jalopy to take driving lessons in? A crippled horse on which to take riding lessons?" 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 Oh, it goes on and on. I'm sure you know. --David Nereson, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070201/86b8e7d1/attachment.html
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