In a message dated 9/28/00 10:25:43 AM Central Daylight Time, dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu writes: << Our days have so much variety. That's what makes this business so good and bad. Yesterday I spent the morning working on a nice Steinway B here in my shop at the school. While doing that I had a nice conversation with an adjunct faculty member about his 1st place finish last week in the Leeds Piano Competition. The afternoon found me under the keyboard of an extremely dusty Cable spinet removing a hammer butt to replace the hammer shank. I also got to tune it for the first time since 1990. Lovely afternoon. dave >> I love it when I tune a Steinway one minute (hour), and a 50 year old Betsy Ross that hasn't been tuned in 50 years the next. It keeps me on my toes. You also meet the most interesting people like that, in the most unusual circumstances. I don't know how some of you guys can stand it, with the cushy university jobs, tuning nothing but high quality pianos, walking to your tuning appointments instead of fighting rush hour traffic. It would drive me nuts to have it so easy. Willem PS any cushy jobs out there? :):)
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