<html><div style='background-color:'>Tuned a neglected spinet for a lady who although was nice struck me from the beginning as "being a couple tacos short of a combination plate."  She wanted me to tune the piano to match her electric organ which according to my trusty accutuner was 9 cents flat.  After I finished the piano she sat down and played a couple of hymns with the damper pedal (or as she called it the loud pedal) depressed for the entire song.  Then told me how wonderful the piano sounded.  Then she asked I could help her tune her auto harp.  She had a chromatic guitar tuner and I showed how how to tune the auto harp until the dial indicated the correct pitch.  She did a couple of notes correctly and after I attemped to explain (she didn't understand) why the bottom notes on the autoharp were not sequential, I took my check and left.  About an hour after I got home the phone rang and she said the piano was way off.  I asked why she thought that and she said it was because the guitar tuner showed the piano was out of tune.  I attempted to explain about stretch tuning and why you couldn't use a guitar tuner except maybe on one note and how the piano was tuned slightly flat anyway to match her organ.  None of it got thru.  After attempting to explain the same thing several times, she finally said thank you (in a disgusted tone) and hung up.  Under ordinary circustances I might have gone back out.  But I know there was nothing wrong with the piano and sometimes you just have to cut you losses.  Needless to say there is a mark next to her name in my customer data base    Anyway thought some of you might enjoy the story under the heading of "been there," "done that," "got the T-Shirt." Have a good day all! Dick Day Marshall MI <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> </div></html>