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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:53
PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> More comic
relief<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT id=role_document size=2>
<DIV>Aside from the middle C wippen flange (or a tenor string) breaking on a
60 year old Acrosonic as you're trying out the piano after fine
tuning it and are ready to leave and go home for the evening, here are my list
of most annoying things in this business. How many can YOU think of?</DIV>
<DIV>Housewives taking 5 minutes to answer the door when you're ringing the
bell (always in mid January)</DIV>
<DIV>Can't find a parking spot (big cities like NYC only)</DIV>
<DIV>Customers that don't show up</DIV>
<DIV>Competing with vacuum cleaners</DIV>
<DIV>Competing with leaf-blowing machines in November<SPAN
class=551335502-01022007><FONT size=3> ;</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT
size=3> lawnmowers in the
summer </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Little children screaming</DIV>
<DIV>Big dogs jumping all over you, little dogs barking each time you make a
move</DIV>
<DIV>Grandfather and cuckoo clocks going off every 15 minutes</DIV>
<DIV>"My husband took the check book. Can I mail it to you?"</DIV>
<DIV>"The last tuner charged me only $25 for a tune-up."<FONT size=3><SPAN
class=551335502-01022007> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=551335502-01022007> </SPAN><SPAN
class=551335502-01022007> Yeah, that was
in 1968. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> It's 90 degrees outside, 100 in the house, and the customer is too
cheap to put on the air conditioner.<SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT
size=3> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT
size=3> I bought a small fan, which I keep in
the car
and bring into the house if needed. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Dead mouse in piano.<SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT
size=3> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT size=3> Or 3 or 4,
plus a huge nest filling the entire keybed, and entire bags of dogfood
transported piece by piece into the piano. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Piano needs everything, especially a complete action rebuild. "My
children just started taking lessons,</DIV>
<DIV>so make it just good enough for a beginner."<FONT size=3><SPAN
class=551335502-01022007> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=551335502-01022007> </SPAN><SPAN
class=551335502-01022007> "Do you want an old wrecked jalopy
to take driving lessons in? A crippled horse on which to
take riding lessons?" </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>New customer says, over the phone, "I think it's a Yamaha." You get there
and it's a Russian piano, vintage 1978!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Jesse Gitnik</DIV>
<DIV>NYC</DIV>
<DIV>Tech since 1980<SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT
size=3> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007><FONT size=3>Oh, it goes on and on.
I'm sure you know. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=551335502-01022007> <FONT
size=3>--David Nereson,
RPT</FONT> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>