turning down unwanted biz

[Ron Nossaman]

>     How do you tell people you don't want to work on their old beater / 
> junker / clunker without coming off as a piano snob, especially if the 
> person who referred you has a piano you've been tuning for years that's 
> no better?  ("You worked on theirs, now all the sudden ours isn't good 
> enough for ya?")
>     --veteran tuner, but still stymied by certain situations
>     --David Nereson, RPT
>      

floccinaucinihilipilifize it. If being reluctant to make 
servicing motions over a dead piano at the owner's expense and 
your own disquiet makes you a piano snob, so be it. No matter 
what you do, someone won't be happy with you, so do  what you 
think is as close to right as you can manage for both yourself 
and them, and move on.

Ron N