Many moons ago, I was called to tune at a recording studio about an hour away from home. In those days I carried everything around in the trunk of my car, and since I was usually the only one driving it, I assumed that everything was where it should be. Wrong. When I got to the studio I opened the trunk to discover, and remember, that I'd taken my tuning tools into my apartment to clean out accumulated detritus and not taken them back out to the car. Duh..... Fortunately, I had my other tool boxes there and found the old tuning hammer I use for restringing, one wedge and a tuning fork. Just like tuning in the dark, I was really forced to concentrate since I had to tune the entire unison of each temperament note/octave before doing the next. (BTW, it was a M&H AA.) I now try to always have my tools in view before I leave for a tuning. Probably low on the Tremper scale since I was a newbie, huh? Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College (319)-387-1204 Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
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