"should I stay or should I go?"

[Kent Swafford]

My blood boils when I must tune in a noisy environment, but I do it, 
almost always without complaint.

I remember hearing Ron Nossaman say years ago that in designing a 
procedure he would prefer to work for 10 minutes rather than to have to 
wait for 5 minutes at any point in the middle.

My attitude towards noisy tuning environments is an extension of this 
attitude, I think. The time spent not tuning and instead upon getting 
things quieted down might be worthwhile, but might not work at all, 
might cause hard feelings, and after which you still have the tuning to 
start up again where you left off. I'd much rather just keep tuning 
without pause. Usually, I outlast the noisemakers and have quiet time 
at the end to make sure the tuning is good.

I finish all tunings that I start. Period. Well, unless the piano 
breaks.   :)

Kent Swafford



On Nov 11, 2004, at 3:12 PM, baoli liu wrote:

> It is always easy to tune pianos in a nice and quite
> place.But being a technician,especially a concert
> technician,I think it is a "must" skill/ability to
> tune pianos with noisy background.