[CAUT] why does it feel better?

[Robin Blankenship]

For all that extra work, they need to pay you for Facilities Management 
duties as well as piano tech work.

Why buy one when you can get two for the price of three!!

Robin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?


> Hey Conrad,
>
> For some faculty the only way they know if their piano has been tuned is
> because the junk has been moved off it... so now between tunings I just
> move things around and I effectively double my tunings. <G>
>
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> Conrad Hoffsommer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?
>
> At 01:18 PM 8/29/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>the piano is one of those things which can really work on the
> imagination
>>and spriit of the person playing it.
>
>>Robin Blankenship
>
>
> One must not ever forget the "placebo effect" either...
>
> Last week, a piano prof had mentioned some repetition issues with the
> hamburger D. A couple days later I got a phone mail message thanking me
> for
> the work I'd done on the instrument.
>
> I hadn't gotten to it yet (still haven't, actually)...
>
> Since he _thought_ (assumed?) I'd worked on it, it played better. ;-}
>
>
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
>
> - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score,
> - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
>
>
>