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speaking from personal experience? Hopefully you=
don't do this anymore...</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>David Ilvedson, RPT</DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=640501714-05102004>----- Original message=
----------------------------------------><BR>From: "D.L.=
Bullock" <<A=
href="mailto:dlbullock@att.net">dlbullock@att.net</A>><BR>To:=
PTG <<A=
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Rec=
eived: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:20:59 -0500<BR>Subject: ethics=
discussion to the next level</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><BR>Why would someone=
change tuners? </SPAN><SPAN class=640501714-05102004>Do=
you recognize yourself in the following story? If so, it=
is time for a drastic change.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>The tuner arrived in a very loud, very beat=
up truck that leaked oil all over the driveway. He came in=
wearing shabby work clothes that judging from the smell had not=
been washed for a week and were probably slept in the night=
before. His personal hygiene was such that the lady of the=
house had to use her dish towel to breathe and left the room=
quickly after showing him to the piano. For three hours=
after he left, the room smelled of him even with all the windows=
and doors open. Of course the open windows changed the=
temperature in the piano drastically. =
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>His tool box was huge and metal. It=
was so big and heavy that he seemed to have trouble carrying it=
and left several dents in furniture in the path from front door=
to piano. His box was placed on the ivory carpet and when=
he left it left several spots. When he picked it up to go=
it pulled a long piece of yarn out of the carpet. When he=
put his tools on the piano he left several scratches on the=
piano case. While tuning, he knocked several spots into=
the gold plate that are now black. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>When he replaced that string that has been=
gone for several years, there is something different about=
it. It does not look like the ones around it. It=
wraps around the tuning peg real funny. There is a little=
sharp piece of piano string that sticks out of two of those=
tuning pegs now. The wire on all the others is all going=
around the pin and bunched together, but his new one has the=
wire crossing itself and all spread out.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>The hammer he replaced sticks way up above=
all the other hammers. It rubs the one next to=
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>When he tuned the piano the lady noticed=
that he did not tune the top five or six notes. They were=
fine, he said. The lowest bass notes he did not bother=
with either, You can't hear those anyway, he=
said.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004><FONT face=Arial=
color=#0000ff size=2>When the lady got the windows all closed=
having aired out the room, she sat down to the piano to play her=
nicely tuned piano. She played a while and decided that=
tuning it really did not make that much difference. She=
wondered why people always say you should tune your piano=
regularly. It did not sound all that different and that=
one that had the missing string was all wonky sounding. =
She decided that it would be a really long time before she ever=
had another tuner out to work on her piano.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=640501714-05102004>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>D.L.=
Bullock St. Louis<BR></STRONG></FONT><A=
href="http://www.thepianoworld.com/"><FONT=
face=Arial><STRONG>www.thepianoworld.com</STRONG></FONT></A><FON=
T face=Arial=
color=#000000><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></FONT></P>
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