>I am not lucky enough to get to tune in concert venues, so my >acoustic challenges come mostly from tuning in the music store. <<TEXT DELETED>> > But, by far, the most challenging venue I have ever attempted to >tune a piano was in 1989, when I was called to a person's house to tune >an acrosonic from the early 50's. Not only was this piano almost a whole >step flat, but she had (no exaggeration) 60 birds of all kinds in that >house. <<TEXT DELETED>> >I think I did a pretty good job considering the environment. > >Arnold Schmidt Hi Arnold, First of all, let me congratulate you for your perserverance. Tuning under those circumstances is surely "for the birds" and the fact that you completed your tuning (with your sanity intact) is quite a "feather in your cap" ;-)... Seriously though, we technicians are really put to the test sometimes, aren't we? It's what our PTG Code of Ethics refers to when it says that we should always do the best job we can under the circumstances. Regards, Tom Seay, RPT Tom Seay School of Music The University of Texas at Austin
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