:D Blwaaa!!!! That's HILLARIOUS! :) m --On Friday, September 2, 2005 4:11 PM -0400 "Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" <WOLFLEEL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote: > > > My least favorite early-career related story is about a client who let me > in and then left to go to the grocery. Unfortunately she had left her > macaw (a very large parrot-like bird) out of the cage. The macaw landed > atop a chair on the other side of the room and watched me get my tools > out. I thought, well this is OK as long as he (she) stayed over there so > I began to tune the large old Steinway upright. The only problem was that > every time I hit a note, the macaw let out a (very) loud screech. It > would sit there looking at me remaining perfectly quiet until I played a > note and then, “Bwraaaawk!”. The tuning wasn’t the > best but I wasn’t going to mess with this bird – they crack > Brazil nuts in their beaks for breakfast! > > > > Eric Wolfley, RPT > > Supervising Piano Technician > > College-Conservatory of Music > > University of Cincinnati > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Don > Mannino Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:46 PM > To: College and University Technicians > Subject: [CAUT] they stayed :o > > > > My favorite related story is about a client who always enjoyed staying in > the room for the tuning. > > > > He would settle into his easy chair across the room and chat while I got > ready to tune, then as I started tuning he would doze off, sleeping > through the tuning! I am not exactly light with my test blows, but I > remember wondering if I should back off a little. > > > > After this happened at 3 or 4 appointments I finally asked him whether > the loud tuning doesn't bother him. He said, well, yes I play the notes > pretty loud, but very consistent. There was something soothing to him > about the sound. I told him it's OK with me, I just wondered. > > > > Maybe his mother had the piano tuned a lot while she was pregnant with > him, who knows! > > > > Don Mannino RPT
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