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<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>
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<STRONG>Doesn't a failed splice display lack of expertise, or experimentation
gone awry?</STRONG> Fail and expert don't seem in the same realm with each
other......</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=992081221-19042008><FONT size=2>I don't think so, not if you've
done it 500 times. Your an expert at tuning, if you break a wire or the piano
doesn't hold, does that display a lack of expertise? If you've tuned x thousand
pianos, you're an expert who deserves to be paid for his time, who else
could have done a better job? Why is this piano now your problem? Believe me,
there are times I won't take the money because I don't want the relationship,
responsibility, or ill will, perhaps as in your situation
below.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Fenton</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net
href="mailto:l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net">Leslie Bartlett</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:18
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Sucessful string splicing,
angry client.</DIV>
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<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>
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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>
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<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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>