"should I stay or should I go?"

[David Ilvedson]

I think we also need to keep in mind how nice and relatively quiet was until we arrived and started bing, bing, bing....bing, bing, bing....
We annoy many people...;-]

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:46:46 -0600
Subject: Re: "should I stay or should I go?"

>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.

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