Next time ask her if her daughters dancing shoes are in good shape or ask the husband if his son plays hockey with broken sticks and old, dull skates. A worn out crappy baseball glove. No soccer shoes??? How could it be !!!! >From: piannaman at aol.com >Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Subject: Re: one of those days >Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:26:12 -0400 > >Wayne, > >Were these people destitute? Sometimes we have to consider the financial >situation as well as the viability of the piano. But when I see this sort >of instrument in a home where money is not an issue, I wonder... > >Would people cook on a stove that has a gas leak? > >Would people drive a car with a broken axle? > >Would people live in a house without a roof? > >So why do they try to play a piano that won't work or sound properly? > >Of course, a piano that doesn't function at a proper level isn't a health >hazard, but isn't music supposed to be a thing of beauty? Then why try to >play "music" on a thing where beauty is not an option. > >Good luck! Today will be better! >Dave Stahl, RPT > >Dave Stahl Piano Service >650-224-3560 >dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net >http://dstahlpiano.net/ > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: wayne.w at musicstop.com >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 5:29 AM >Subject: one of those days > > >Just came from a customer with a pre 1900 Morris upright. Pianos needs >tuning and few notes not working, lady of the house tells me. I open the >piano and first thing I noticed is the big long crack in the open face pin >block. This crack cover most of the upper pins in the tenor section. There >were more short cracks thru out the block. The crack was wide enough that I >could get the blade of my jack knife in about 1/4 of an inch. Piano had >missing hammers etc.. >I called the lady back into the room to show her the pin block and told her >the piano was not worth fixing. She understood, I thought until, she asked >me if I had fix the keys that were not working. I said no I didn't because >the piano was north fixing..She said that they needed to be fix as her >children were taking lesson on the piano. I explained this was not a good >piano for kids to take lesson as it was a tone down in pitch etc... "Well >this is what we got and we don't want to spent more in cased the kids lose >interest. " was her comment. "By the way you talked you don't want to work >on my piano, so you should leave" I knew I was fighting a losing battle so >I left. Makes you wondering. > >Wayne Walker >Piano Tuner / Technician >Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service >264 Herring Cove Road >Halifax, NS, Canada >B3P 1M1 >902-221-1540 >902-496-0041 Fax >www.musicstop.com > > > >I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >It has removed 2342 spam emails to date. >Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >Try SPAMfighter for free now! > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 >7:44 AM >________________________________________________________________________ >AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free >from AOL at AOL.com. _________________________________________________________________ Have Some Fun Out Of The Sun This March Break http://local.live.com/?mkt=en-ca/?v=2&cid=A6D6BDB4586E357F!142
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