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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the absence of a pool table, this might have
been their fancy eatin' table, with the concave, spandex-matching nook for
the head-of-table place setting. Drink holders underneath.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When it's time to do the dishes, roll the whole
mess to the sink, and put it in table-clearing mode with the lid
prop. Nice. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cliff Lesher</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Winfield, PA</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mjmccoy@usa.com href="mailto:mjmccoy@usa.com">Mike McCoy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Aaargh!! Chapter Two
...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Had a similar issue yesterday as well. New customer 3 days ago,
drove up to a mediocre 2-story that looked like the Clampetts place (before
they struck black gold, Texas tea). Broken, rusted toys, tools, junk all over
the place outside. The woman was dressed in nasty looking stretch clothes,
hair looked it hadn't been washed in a week. Inside we weaved our way through
stacks and stacks of books, magazines, clothes piles and clothes piles and
clothes piles, back to a small, filthy, junk pile 12 x 20 living room to the
piano.... a 1980's S&S B, huh, not exactly what I expected. Tuned it no
prob, but it played badly and needed the damper upstop rail adjusted. She
needed to leave so we scheduled that for today. She got her checkbook from her
"purse", (a gallon zip lock bag) and paid me. <BR> Today I adjusted the
rail and she said her husband wanted me to tune the piano again, it was too
"bright", so I measured it with RCT and showed her what I was doing, luckily
it was right where I left it and for some reason the unisons were great. She
came to her own conclusion that they were used to it being flat and that they
would have to get used to it being in tune. Finding the B in that mess just
floored me!<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR>Alan R. Barnard wrote:
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<P>Hmmmm, similar to a story I have for today.</P>
<P>Hamilton studio in rural Baptist church: Came in for tuning and the
person who let me in said he was asked to tell me to stop tuning the piano
so high; said several inthe congregation had trouble singing the hymns and
that 4 different pianists had declared that it was tuned too high.</P>
<P>Wipped out my trusty iPAQ w/Tunelab and played A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5.
They were all very nearly dead-on pitch (thank goodness) even though I
hadn't tuned it yet today and it's been about a year since I did.</P>
<P>Education is what you did and all you can do. I explained standard pitch,
the need to maintain tension at spec, etc., and that I would charge double
to lower the pitch even a half step.</P>
<P>He understood and agreed. Hope he's persuasive. Accounts get lost over
stupid stuff like this.</P>
<P>BTW ANOTHER way that an ETD can be very useful -- as a marketing and
education tool.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR>Joshua
24:15<BR><BR><BR><BR></P>
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Original message<BR>From: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:richard.ucci@att.net">richard.ucci@att.net</A><BR>To: <A
class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>Received:
01/25/2007 4:52:38 PM<BR>Subject: argh!!<BR><BR><!-- WEBMAIL STATIONERY noneset -->
<DIV align=left>Hi folks,</DIV>
<DIV>Tuned a yamaha m-450 (new) a month ago, woman calls back two weeks
later and says the piano sounds "twangy".</DIV>
<DIV>I get there today and she says it's really the way it's playing that is
the problem.</DIV>
<DIV>Says hammers are striking twice, and I ask her to play something for
me.</DIV>
<DIV>She is playing sooo softly she is barely pressing the keys down, while
using the sustain pedal as well.</DIV>
<DIV>I explain what is meant to go on in the action, jack and escapement
etc., "well... my old piano never did that".</DIV>
<DIV>Piano is right on by Yamaha specs, and plays well (when played
normally).</DIV>
<DIV>I set the letoff at about 3-5mm from the strings and it improved the
situation.</DIV>
<DIV>Oh, she also wanted to know why the tenor dampers weren't in a straight
line like all the others.(I wanted to scream).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What would you guys do besides what I did to correct the problem?</DIV>
<DIV>Rick Ucci/Ucci
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