square grand tuning: fun

[John Ross]

I had a customer beg me to do one.
I made him play the keys, and I tuned from the back. My back wasn't sore.
He hasn't called back, and it doesn't bother me one little bit.
Doing it myself, my back is sore for three days, so I don't do them anymore. 
Mind you the sore back, could be due to the age of it. :-)

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: square grand tuning: fun


> Tom and Dave,
>
> At 01:18 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>>I've tuned one, and only one, and my experience was similar to yours.
>>Dave Stahl
>>
>>>Maybe this was a small square, and thus was easier to reach the tuning 
>>>pins.  Then again, maybe some people are just whiners.
>>>Tom Sivak
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> You two have just earned an honored place on Joe's mantle.
> ;-}
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> I've got only one customer with a square, and he usually calls about every 
> decade (about 2 years overdue, right now...).  I'm only about 5'8", and it 
> and the one at school are 88 key gargantuans, but I still haven't minded 
> the stretch.
>
> The last time I tuned either one was before I had my RCT.  Just a wild 
> idea, but has anyone tried tuning a big square using an assistant at the 
> keys and you in the back with ETD and tuning hammer?  Could be easier on 
> the back.
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> Conrad Hoffsommer
>
> Early to rise: early to bed;
> Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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