John: It has been traditional to encourage blind persons to become piano tuners. Your post is the best argument I've heard to include deaf persons. Carl Meyer Santa Clara, Ca. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Musselwhite" <john@musselwhite.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:04 PM Subject: Re: large uprights > At 09:41 AM 11/17/2000 -0800, Del wrote: > > >I can find no rational excuse for continuing to build spinet pianos. > >Regardless of the length of their bass strings. (I still haven't figured > >out why they were introduced in the first place.) > > They are smaller (lower anyway) and don't overpower a small room either > visually or aurally, they are lighter and easier to move, especially to > walk-up apartments and choir masters can see and direct over them. > > I'm just off to "tune" one now... a 40 year-old mahogany plywood > soundboarded Canadian spinet that until last summer had dried-out old foam > rubber instead of cloth on the back rail, hammer rail, spring rail and > let-off rail and the kids had already taken 4 years of lessons on it. It's > a "family heirloom" and it's all they can afford so we have to do what we > have to do... which in my case includes wearing my ER-15 earplugs while > tuning it. > > John > > > > > > John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada > http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary > email: john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom >
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