On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:06 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > How do these tuner have the nerve to do that? > > Wim > One of the saddest things I know about was related to me by my dad years ago. There was a tooner in town who sold and installed a couple of Dampp Chaser heater bars in a grand piano (bars only--stats weren't around at this time). Or perhaps the lady had 2 grands, and it was one bar in each piano. Anyway, the bill was $800.00. Same guy reportedly put his electronic strobe tuner on top of the UNOPENED piano lid, sits back and then reads the paper. Tells the lady of the house that the electronic tuner was tuning the piano for him. Now that's pathetic. But the customer bears some responsibility here as well. Unless, of course, the tooner was taking advantage of someone who wasn't mentally competent. But still .... -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101210/2f69cc93/attachment-0001.htm>
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