<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Any repair that I consider my self an expert at I charge for, if I'm learning or experimenting and it fails, I might eat it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=992081221-19042008><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>                 Doesn't a failed splice display lack of expertise, or experimentation gone awry?  Fail and expert don't seem in the same realm with each other......</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=992081221-19042008><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=992081221-19042008><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>I had a string break on a Schimmel last week, the guy saying it was "tuned a year ago"........  I'd put my career on the line, claiming it hadn't been tuned in at least four.  Top was 35 cents out, lower stuff about 15.  After he invoked a number of deities he wanted nothing more than to be rid of me....... and I of him.    I even did a really nice splice.  So, I bit the bullet on pitch raise, didn't charge for the splice, gave him the name of two other tuners, and then as I was heading away I called them both and warned them of this 'creature' who might be calling.  Wouldn't you know it, I immediately went to a Yamaha GH1 which hadn't been tuned in at least 10 years..........  65 cents off in the top- beginning at about C5, rather than at the bottom..........   Yeow. Bad day in the neighborhood......</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN class=992081221-19042008>les bartlett</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>