Dick, I once heard of a someone who had to tune a piano on a "gymatorium" stage while a gym class was going on. He used a stethoscope! Of course, this was in the "good ol'days" prior to SAT's! <G> >For what it's worth, I actually find that I use the magnetic pickup very >little. but when I do it's a mind-saver. Like the example of tuning in a day >room with 20 noisy mental patients and rap music on the TV. Or the time I >had to do a quick tuning on a badly out of tune console piano at a County >Fair with a ride blaring out 100 DB Rock music about 5O yards away. I walked >away with 70 bucks after about 1-1/4. Try that with you in the machine mike >or worse yet with just your ears. I know some would have walked away and not >done the tuning, but I have $70 dollars that they don't have. > >Regards to all, >Dick Day >Marshall MI _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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