Has THIS ever happened to you?

[PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com]

I replaced a flimsy Baldwin bench bottom (what OTHER kind of bench bottoms  
exist?) with a solid board from Home Depot, about the 20th time I've done  such 
a job. The lady was very impressed, and brings me her kitchen cabinet  drawer 
which was falling apart because the sides were STAPLED into place instead  of 
screwed into place. She asked me if I could fix it too. I told her that  
woodwork was not my trade, but I would do it as a favor to her for a service  
charge.She agreed, and paid me on the spot even before I took it back to my  shop. 
How many times have YOU been asked to do a carpentry or woodworking job? I  
felt funny doing non-piano work for money, as this compromises my  
professionalism and pride in my craft -- I feel like a jack-of-all-trades, which  is 
definitely something I DO NOT want to be viewed as.
 
Jesse Gitnik  NYC
In it since 1980
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