Weird detuning

Thomas D. Seay, III t.seay@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:16:12 -0600


>I tuned a Mason & Hamlin A grand last Thursday for a longtime customer who
>is an excellent pianist. There was a call on the answering machine Friday
>that something was wrong with the tuning.
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>What on earth is going on? I will, of course, monitor the piano, and if it
>happens again I know the man will contact me right away. But all I can
>come up with is
>
>A) a very strange burglar
>B) magnetic anomalies in the earth's crust or core
>C) alien intervention
>or D) supernatural interference in my life, either simply to annoy me,
>or to make me realize that I really have no control over the universe.
>
>I find none of these satisfying, and some of them irritating. The customer
>seems quite sane and normal, but I've watched enough Hitchcock movies to
>know that you can never REALLY TELL.

No doubt about it, it's El Nino.

Tom Seay
The University of Texas at Austin
t.seay@mail.utexas.edu





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