Just thinking, insert your own numbers........ Assume 400 strings per average tuning, since some pianos require pitch adjustment and some don't. times 12 tunings per week, to allow for other stuff = 4800 strings/wk times 46 weeks, to allow for vacation, sick days, etc., = 220,800 strings/yr times say a 45-year career = close to 10,000,000 strings per career times say five blows per string (fewer on pitch, more on fine) equals approximately 50,000,000 assaults on your tender little ears, just from tuning. It's the same number, incidentally, on your tiny little fingertips. Having already developed, I'm sure, good tuning lever technique which limits the number of hard blows you have to use, NOW will you visit your audiologist to be fitted for a pair of 15-decibel-attenuating personally-fitted ear protectors? Incidentally, I may also get 10-decibel inserts for fine tuning. Bob Davis, recent convert, feeling like a stubborn blockhead for waiting so long.
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