I can't believe how much a tuna costs!

[Boston John Doucette]

The ol' Steinway was a bit out of sorts so I had the piano tuna in today...

I can't believe how much they charge these days!

Gotta be something fishy somewheres 

BJ D

[Texas Tall]

Yeah ya right Boston John, I think it Stinks.
Sea ya..............T.T.

[Badlands Walker]

BJD,

Back in the days when I use to plunk around on the ivory's, it cost about $15 an hour to have one tuned back then.  I will assume because you did not post a value, that the prices have risen considerably and you needed to take out a second mortgage!

[Forty Rod]

It shore sounds like you got hooked for too much, Chum.  If it's much over a hundred bucks I couldn't stand the gaff.  I would quickly become a sinker.

Maybe you should have put out a few more lines and cast about for a better catch.  You might have netted a savings on the gig.  Sounds like your town may not be big enough to give you a selection, so you might be up the creek without a paddle.  You need to lure a couple more experts to town.  Do some trolling and see what you can dredge up.

If you already had it tuna-ed, you might try a few scales to get your fingerlings back in shape.  I'd give a fin to hear you play, but That would likely be a fluke.  Getting me out of here anymore is a real upstream swim, even to go visit family, but that's telling tails out of school.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

We've got a pard here, BJD, that tunes'em fer a living. Rye Miles outta Euclid. He'd probably do ya right, but the travel expenses would probably kill you. Oh, yeah, he shoots Colts.......Buck

[El Peludo]

I don't know wha the tarriff was for your tuneup, BJD, but if you think about the level of skill, and compare:  flat rate shop time is about $75.00/hour, now, and just about any skilled trade, at scale, gets somewhere in the area of $25 to $50 - yeah, things are a bit pricey, these days.

[Boston John Doucette]

Cute, 40 

You know, my grandmother, Hazel, was a whale of a player-- made JoAnne Castle from the old Lawrence Welk show look like a piker...
But I just flounder around on the keyboard for the halibut. 

BJ (I'm lucky I can play my stereo!) D

[LazyK Pejay]

Now this is a funny thread...

LazyK Pejay

[Forty Rod]

YOU CAN PLAY A STEREO??? 

Oooooooooooooo!!  Teach me.  Teach me.

My wife took my round away from me because I played it too much.  I was playing a round in the car, at the store, while she was doing dishes, when folks came to visit, and in church.

She told me I played a round too much and she took it away. 

Now I'm just like a fish out of water.

[Badlands Walker]

I play the string-box and have for 40 years, playin' Cowboy & Country music!  Does that count?