<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>Dave,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It isn't you...you ARE good!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Horace Greely recently pointed out that certain manufacturers only make= consoles and uprights as stepping stones to their grand pianos.  You ar= e helping to confirm this theory.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When you meet one of these, your day can go south in a hurry.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>May your days be filled with something worth tuning!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/16/05 4:30:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, avery1@houston.rr.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Dave, <BR><BR>That must be S & S. We have one of those (OLD one!) I can sympathize! <BR><BR>Avery<BR><BR>At 12:59 PM 6/16/05, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times">One must have a certain amount of confid= ence in his/her abilities in order to go out in the world and make a living working on pianos as we do.  I think I normally have enough, born o= f 30+ years of doing this.  That isā€¦ā€¦..until ā€= “ like yesterday ā€“ I encounter a Famous Maker model K.  I left the customerā€™s ho= me convinced that I was the worst pin twister in the state if not the world!  <BR> <BR>What a terrible combination, that instrument.  The hi= gh price (exorbitant price?) combined with the Famous Maker decal on the fr= ont leads the customer to have great expectations.  Somehow the funky t= one at the south end of the long bridge must be the tunerā€™s fault, a= nd the false beats mean he canā€™t tune.  <BR> <BR>Sorry about the ra= nt.  Iā€™ve resorted to simple jobs today, busing keys, cleaning etc.&n= bsp; Maybe Iā€™ll learn this business yet!<BR> <BR>dave<BR> <BR>__________________________<BR></FONT= ><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>David M. Porritt, RPT<BR>Meadow= s</FONT> School of the Arts<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>Sou= thern Methodist University<BR>Dallas</FONT>, TX 75275<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>