[pianotech] middle pedal

Susan Kline skline at peak.org
Mon Dec 27 19:20:27 MST 2010


<grin> Tom --- better to tell them to an inexperienced technician?

This was a Kimball grand, mid-eighties, store warranty. Goodness, the 
work I used to do back then!

Susan

P.S. Happy New Year

On 12/27/2010 6:03 PM, Thomas Cole wrote:
> Hi Susan,
>
> What has me dismayed is how a person can tell such lies to an 
> experienced technician.
>
> Positive: wrong at the top of ones voice. /Ambrose Bierce/
>
> Tom
>
> On 12/27/10 3:14 PM, Susan Kline wrote:
>> On 12/27/2010 3:05 PM, Thomas Cole wrote:
>>> The woman called me that evening and demanded that I put the dampers 
>>> back in that I took out. I managed to explain over the phone that no 
>>> piano has dampers beyond the middle of the sixth octave. 
>>
>> Hi, Tom
>>
>> I had a customer like that, too. Thought the new grand was defective 
>> because the dampers stopped in the treble, and insisted and swore on 
>> a stack of bibles that _every piano she had ever played_ including 
>> her old spinet, had dampers all the way to the top.

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