<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2008 12:13 PM, Diane Hofstetter <<a href="mailto:dianepianotuner@msn.com">dianepianotuner@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>Michael Magness IFixPianos at <a href="http://yahoo.com/" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>  wrote:<br> <br>>I refuse to tune with parakeets in the room, they screech and squawk as you<br>tune and the louder you are, the louder they get. I ask that they move them<br>to another room or cover them.<br>I did tune for a customer with a large gray parrot in a cage right next to<br> the piano, the customer wasn't home and every little bit the parrot would<br>give out with a loud squawk. I saw nothing in sight to cover it with, I had<br>no work number for the customer so I had to just live with it!<br> <br>Mike<br><br><br>When we moved to Vancouver, WA from Santa Cruz, CA, our piano mover of 30 years was getting married.  He invited us to his wedding and asked us to house-sit and care for Snoopy, his white rat-terrier dog, from whom he had never been separated--even for a few hours--since the dog was born, and Buddy, his red-blue Macaw.  Snoopy spent the entire honeymoon, staring at the front door until his eyes couldn't stay open any longer and his head fell down--asleep on the top of the couch, watching the door.<br> <br>Buddy, the huge parrot, was well behaved--Rick told us the secret: a spray bottle of water.  Whenever Buddy would sqawk loudly, even the sight of the spray bottle would stop him for a moment.  A brief spritz would work for much longer..........  (Only you gotta be sure the spray bottle doesn't have Protek in it--or worse--just use plain water.)<br> <font color="#888888"><br>Diane Hofstetter<br><br></font></blockquote></div> <div><br><br clear="all">Thanks for the info Diane, duly noted!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br>-- <br>We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<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>