Wayne Walker wrote: > 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. > Someone on this list earlier gave the analogy of learning to ride on a bicycle with flat tires and inflating them after they learn. My response to a similar situation many years ago was to wish them always the level of service they are willing to pay for. (that party didn't even want to pay the service call...) - Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
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