More comic relief

[Gregor _]

customers who complain about the price: oh, the last tuner charged only XXX 
(insert here the half of the usual-in-the-market-price). Into the bargain, 
they continue suffering a loss of reality: is the retuning in a few month 
included in your exorbitant price? No? Why not? The last tuner did so!

I ask myself why they don´t call that cheap, charming, professional, good 
looking, quick and near-time available collegue again? Probably because he 
starved?

Gregor






>From: Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com>
>Reply-To: tcole at cruzio.com, Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: More comic relief
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:51:28 -0800
>
>Customers who play a single note and complain that it's out of tune. Or 
>they'll play a C-major triad built on C1 (on a spinet) which "sounds bad."
>
>No shows, like the lady today who left a message later on explaining that 
>she had an emergency. I wanted to explain to her that it would be better to 
>tell me that *before* I make the trip up the mountain. I guess "emergency" 
>means, "I don't have to look at my calendar" and "I don't have to pay you 
>any money."
>
>Stage crews who act like you aren't even there and make an unnecessary 
>amount of noise.
>
>Child humming the notes you're tuning.
>
>"The piano's in the garage."
>
>Callers who start off asking how much I would charge to tune their piano.
>
>Or say, "Since you tuned my piano... "
>
>People who schedule other service people on the same day you're coming.
>
>People who leave the house shortly before you finish the tuning.
>
>"Well, it sounds the same to me, but I guess it was time to be tuned."
>
>There's more but it's late...
>Tom Cole
>
>PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Aside from the middle C wippen flange (or a tenor string) breaking on a 60 
>>year old Acrosonic as you're trying out the piano after fine tuning it and 
>>are ready to leave and go home for the evening, here are my list of most 
>>annoying things in this business. How many can YOU think of?
>>Housewives taking 5 minutes to answer the door when you're ringing the 
>>bell (always in mid January)
>>Can't find a parking spot (big cities like NYC only)
>>Customers that don't show up
>>Competing with vacuum cleaners
>>Competing with leaf-blowing machines in November
>>Little children screaming
>>Big dogs jumping all over you, little dogs barking each time you make a 
>>move
>>Grandfather and cuckoo clocks going off every 15 minutes
>>"My husband took the check book. Can I mail it to you?"
>>"The last tuner charged me only $25 for a tune-up."
>>  It's 90 degrees outside, 100 in the house, and the customer is too cheap 
>>to put on the air conditioner.
>>Dead mouse in piano.
>>Piano needs everything, especially a complete action rebuild. "My children 
>>just started taking lessons,
>>so make it just good enough for a beginner."
>>New customer says, over the phone, "I think it's a Yamaha." You get there 
>>and it's a Russian piano, vintage 1978!
>>  Jesse Gitnik
>>NYC
>>Tech since 1980
>

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