<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your best bet is to "run away, run away " (pardon the Monty Python reference, here).  It seems, quite obviously, that these folks are pretty "hell-bent" on saving a P.O.S. (yes, that is-- 'piece of shit') erroneously presuming that this instrument could be made to play-- at least for the 'children' to learn on.  Don't lower your standards as a tuner/tech. for their ignorance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You clearly indicated the problems with the piano, and its in-ability to perform even 'marginally' for a beginner.  Kindly thank them for the call, charge them for a service call, MAKE SURE YOU GET PAID, and move on.  It is frightfully obvious that you're not going to have a positive experience here.  Their ignorance is their only saving grace.  If they aren't willing to listen to reason, please read the beginning of this paragraph AGAIN, and ................."run away, run away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Customers like this will only hinder your learning as a tech., or discourage you from approaching problems with REAL instruments----- which--- incidently, would actually be worth REBUILDING.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Run Away, Wayne!"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marshall Connolly</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=wayne.w@musicstop.com href="mailto:wayne.w@musicstop.com">Wayne Walker</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 23, 2007 7:29 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> one of those days</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4> <DIV><SPAN class=968512318-20032007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Just came from a customer with a pre 1900 Morris upright. Pianos needs tuning and few notes not working, lady of the house tells me. I open the piano and first thing I noticed is the big long crack in the open face pin block. This crack cover most of the upper pins in the tenor section. There were more short cracks thru out the block. The crack was wide enough that I could get the blade of my jack knife in about 1/4 of an inch. Piano had missing hammers etc..</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=968512318-20032007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>I called the lady back into the room to show her the pin block and told her the piano was not worth fixing. She understood, I thought until, she asked me if I had fix the keys that were not working. I said no I didn't because the piano was north fixing..She said that they needed to be fix as her children were taking lesson on the piano. I explained this was not a good piano for kids to take lesson as it was a tone down in pitch etc... "Well this is what we got and we don't want to spent more in cased the kids lose interest. " was her comment. "By the way you talked you don't want to work on my piano, so you should leave" I knew I was fighting a losing battle so I left. Makes you wondering.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=968512318-20032007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=968512318-20032007> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Wayne Walker</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Piano Tuner / Technician</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>264 Herring Cove Road</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>Halifax, NS, Canada</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>B3P 1M1</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>902-221-1540</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>902-496-0041 Fax</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><A href="http://www.musicstop.com/">www.musicstop.com</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></FONT></DIV><BR> <HR> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users.<BR>It has removed 2342 spam emails to date.<BR>Paying users do not have this message in their emails.<BR>Try <A href="http://www.spamfighter.com/len">SPAMfighter</A> for free now!<BR><BR> <P><FONT size=2>--<BR>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR>Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 7:44 AM<BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>