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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Mike McCoy <<a href="mailto:mjmccoy@usa.com">mjmccoy@usa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I had to kneel on a hardwood floor to tune a spinet once, same<br>reason...no chairs, but it was in a old Church converted to a home,<br>
seemed appropriate.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mike<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>David Boyce wrote:<br>> Went today to a new client. Recently moved house, wanted piano tuned.<br>> Nice 1930s Danemann upright.<br>><br>> There was no piano stool, so I asked for a kitchen chair or stool to<br>
> sit on. They had none! The seat inserts were all away to be<br>> re-upholstered and all they had was chair frames with no seats. The<br>> woman was going to lay a framed (with glass) print across one of the<br>
> chair frames for me to sit on. The neighbours were out, so she<br>> couldn't borrow a chair.<br>><br>> I ended up tuning the piano standing up, but it wasn't comfortable for<br>> me. I'm 6'1" (182.5 cm, bearing in mind recent metric discussions!)<br>
><br>> Maybe its a good idea to carry a little folding picnic stool in the<br>> car in future! How prepared does one have to be? Last week I bought a<br>> small but powerful vacuum cleaner half-price in the supermarket for<br>
> piano work, having recently wasted about half an hour trying to get a<br>> customer's vacuum cleaner to work with the nozzle attachment , when I<br>> was cleaning out the keybed along with some other work. I<br>
> congratulated myself on remembering to take it today just in case<br>> needed for new customer. A chair would've been better.<br>><br>> Do you ever get the feeling with a customer that they live in a<br>
> universe slightly out of phase with yours? Today's was one of those.<br>> I dunno, just somehow "we're not communicatin' here".<br>><br>> David.<br>><br>><br></div></div></blockquote>
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<div><br>Years ago I showed up at Christmas to tune an old upright to find a complete Christmas village with houses, light poles, people, trees, fences in all 150+ pieces she said, she didn't realize I would have to open it DUHHHH. I re-scheduled for January.</div>
<div>I was once offered a sewing bench to use it seemed very sturdy but about halfway through the tuning I ended up in a heap on the floor, nothing broken on me or the bench, just all of it's hide glue joints had let go. Did I mention they lived in a very humid valley?</div>
<div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>
email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>