ergonomics/Plumber Envy?

[Tom Sivak]

Del
   
  What a great story!  Loved it.
  
Tom Sivak
Chicago

Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich at pianobuilders.com> wrote:
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  Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:57:56 -0800
From: tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: ergonomics/Plumber Envy?
To: pianotech at ptg.org

   
  Musicians have complained for decades about being asked to come in through the kitchen door, so maybe it's just a music thing.  There's even a joke about St. Peter asking the musician to enter heaven through the kitchen door rather than the Pearly Gates.  (I guess the piano tuner version of that joke would be that the plumber goes through the Pearly Gates, but we're asked to enter through the back door?)
   
   
  Some years back I serviced a piano in a very large home owned by some very affluent folks. They were nice folks but they did rather want to be sure everyone was in his or her proper place in the social pecking order. 
   
  I was always greeted at the front door by a maid/secretary/PA (or whatever) and taken directly to the piano. On one of these visits I noticed that another service man of some sort who came to the front door was asked to go around back to the service entrance. 
   
  I must have looked surprised because the maid later explained. It seems that several years before I came along the family was throwing a big party which included live music in the form of a well-known local pianist. The piano had been tuned earlier in the week and had been moved to a place of honor in the center of the "entertainment room" and everything was good to go. 
   
  The pianist showed up at the front door at the appointed time and was asked to go around back to the service entrance. It was, it seems, a dark and stormy night and the treck to the back might have looked some daunting. Or, perhaps, the pianist was just irritated at what must have seemed like a strange request since one could fairly easily see the piano through the open front door and he could have walked directly to it. 
   
  For whatever reason, without a word he simply turned around, returned to his car and drove away. It was obviously too late to find a replacement and the party went on without live music. And from that day on anyone having anything to do with the piano came in through the front door while the rest of the various service people it takea to maintain a house like that came in through the back service entrance.
   
  Del
   
   

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