Well...I guess I'm going to have to be diplomatic...
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To quote Henry Higgins, Damn! Damn! Damn!
I'm not good at diplomatic. I'm very good at blunt.
Anyway...You've seen the thread today about the click. Well...There's another small issue...The piano is out of tune. So, I know there is a Baptist Fight, er, business meeting tonight at 2000. I don't know if they are discussing any new business tonight, but I checked with the church secretary JIC. If they were, I'd offer to do what I usually do at church - pay to have the piano tuned, voiced, etc.
Secretary told me she had just cut a check a couple of weeks ago, because it had just been done. And she told me who did it. I know the guy, he used to be in New Orleans and now he's somewhere around Lafayette. He does the universities and several of the churches around here, usually on a schedule. He's decent. Too expensive, but decent.
Before I go running my big mouth, I've got to make very sure the piano is not in tune. Since the guitars don't tune to the piano ( I don't like that), the wife is going to have to have one of the guitars tune up and then check. If the piano is off, it may be that it's so old the guy couldn't raise it to pitch. Or it could be he did a lousy job, which is unusual, but if it's the last one of the day (which it probably was), hey, stuff happens.
The piano is an old Yamaha G2 and I suspect it's seen better days. If it can't be tuned properly... I don't think it would be worth dumping money into for a refurb, or could I be wrong?
If it's a case of the guy from down South doing a crappy job, How can I politely get him axed? I've got a guy who was a music teacher that went back and trained to tune and do some minor work...I wouldn't want him to do a major voicing or serious action work, but he does a nice job with a regular tuning and he will do it for about 75% of what the Lafayette tech charges. He's done a half-dozen different pianos for me and I've been pleased.
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A 30+ year old G series piano… In a church… In Louisiana?
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A 30+ year old G series piano… In a church… In Louisiana?
@LuFins-Dad said in Well...I guess I'm going to have to be diplomatic...:
A 30+ year old G series piano… In a church… In Louisiana?
Not gonna go there. Nope.
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He makes a circuit up here. In fact, he's tuned the Perzina and done a decent job...It was his fourth or fifth piano of the day
But as far as just tuning, he's no better than the local guy. Local guy went back and learned how to tune, but he is an accomplished guitar player with a MA in music ed, so he has a good ear and finishes up his tuning aurally. And it would save me some money.
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@Mik said in Well...I guess I'm going to have to be diplomatic...:
Hmm. Not that far I guess. 90 minutes. Still a long way for a tuner.
BTW, I almost bought a Hailun sight unseen from Sam Bennett in Atlanta. When we looked at shipping, he was shocked! He told me I lived in a "Piano Desert".
Since their shop was doing a buttload of pianos for LSU (water damage), he told me that when they delivered them back to LSU, he'd throw it on the truck and haul it for nothing if I'd meet him at the school.Alas, I bought a nice used Kawai in Jackson from Allegrezza (who may just be older than Larry
) so the deal didn't happen, but they were nice people to work with.I'll say the same for Rich Galassini. Top notch guy.
OTH, I hear there's some guy up around D.C., who's peddling Indonesian-made Yamahas, made by carpenters on Mondays, using leftover banjo parts...
