ROFLMAO! When I got in the business, polyester was king. (youngsters - google "leisure suit") I can't tell you how many slacks got ruined just leaning up against the keybed of an upright while tuning. Any diving under grands turned you into a big Swiffer(R) sweeper! When I got my college job I went to jeans and good sport shirts. My private customers all saw me that way, as I did many outside tunings on the way home from my "day job". It helps that I'm in a mostly rural area and so didn't/don't look out of place. That said, I recently got word back through the grapevine, that the 80+ year old mother of a friend commented that I was the only jeans-wearing person she knew that didn't look messy. Holes and torn jeans are for yard work. Keep yourself neat and clean, ask and be ready to remove shoes upon entering, do good work and you can wear any "uniform" and be invited back. Conrad Hoffsommer From: encorepianos at metrocast.net To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:17:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ties For me, I have found that there is a direct correlation between how well I dress and how dirty I get at the customer’s house. If I am wearing black slacks and a tie, without fail I will be required to crawl underneath a grand piano whose floor has not been vacuumed since just after the birth of Christ. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Foote Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:08 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ties >> I have recently decided to go to wearing one because I am trying to project a higher levelof professionalism than the tooners who compete with me. In my area, a tiestill says, "This guy is a professional." I wear nice-looking Dockers, adress shirt, and a tie. Cool. And what do you do with that tie when you have to repair an underlever? or glue leather pads on trapwork?Regards, Ed Foote (fashion plate) RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110126/25ba306b/attachment.htm>
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