Not to make you jealous or anything, Guy, but my problem got solved the first year. ;-) Musta been my charming smile and long eye-lashes. :-) Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nichols" <nicho@zianet.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:04 PM Subject: Re: audience throws off pitch OT > At 08:32 PM 3/25/2004 -0600, you wrote: > >Sorry, Guy, I wasn't curious enough to check. Now I would be! The truth > >is, after I turned off the lights I didn't bother to service the piano that > >morning. I thought (right or wrong) it wasn't worth my time. I had 89 > >other instruments to look after--and there was always someone waiting...... > > > >The conditions in that hall were good--after the thermostat was fixed. I > >heard from the faculty that it had been bad for years. I started sweetly > >squeaking at the physical plant staff the moment I got hired. ;-) After it > >was corrected, there was never a problem with the tuning wandering during a > >performance. > > > >Barbara Richmond > > > >PS Someday maybe I'll tell you about my adventures in educating the educated > >at a university. :-) > > > Educating the (over) educated is sooo much fun. I'll relate a story from NMSU: > There's a relatively new building across the parking lot upwind from > the main recital hall. After it was completed, I noticed a really annoying > loud continuous hum from somewhere in the area of this new building. > Dissonant, like a flatted ninth, sorta, with just a touch of variance in > one or both of the fundamentals. The partials were.... cosmic. Sounds like > ventilation-type equipment, set to cause nervous breakdown. Big steel stage > doors face this noise, and the noise is barely detectable in the hall. Only > when, for example .... tuning. And.... the recording engineer picked it up > once when the wind was just right and he had nine mics on stage. > So.... haul educated types of varying caste levels out the back and > say.... "Listen!" "Oh yeah", they say. I'll call someone. Months go by. I > call a few, also. Physical plant types. Customers in high places. Honestly, > if a prison facility had this backround noise, human rights groups would > complain. > Out of the blue, just last week, I'm tuning for the visiting artist. > Fellow in blue walks in and starts looking around. On stage. When I asked > him wazzup he informs me he's the new "temp" > architect/construction/engineer-type guy, hoping his job is made permanent. > Took him out back and he seemed to know exactly what was causing the > problem and how to fix it. We shall see. > Moral of the story could have something to do with blue collar types, > but I'm really more reminded of the hound dog on the porch, whimpering. > When the visitor asked the bubba why his dog was whining, he was informed > that the nail stickin' up outta the porch was annoyin' the hound. Just... > not enough. Coulda been a real smart dog, y'know..... > > Later, > Guy > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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