Why I'm the tuner and they aren't...

[Doug Renz Piano Tuning / Repair]

I had an experience of tuning in a MALL store a while back during
Christmas time.  I started at 8AM and I was finishing up piano #2 and
outside of the piano store was the place where show's, concerts are
held.  We'll a band was "warming up", LOUDLY while I was tuning.  It
was a best effort tuning.  I turned to the store manager and said, "I
think this will be my last piano I'll be tuning today."

Doug Renz
Associate PTG
Rochester, NY
pianotuner@frontiernet.net


Quoting Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu>:

>
> Favorite things come in threes, right?
>
> 1. This morning, I tuned my favorite PSO on campus. 42" console which
> could
> be the poster child for flagpoling tuning pins. (Some bass pins are
> showing
> ¼" of thread above the plate) Driving pins not advised because then
> all the
> strings would walk up over the coils. Located in a basement coffee
> shop
> w/entertainment area (stage/dance floor). Humidity control
> non-existant and
> pitch regularly varies between 435/444... today it was 433.1 Hz.
>
> 2. Cleaning person was vacuuming when I got there. No big deal with
> laptop
> based RCT and microphone dropped down into case.  When the vacuuming
> was
> finished, I was asked if I wanted all the light turned off.  Hmmm,
> let me
> see... 6AM/interior basement room... "Nah, leave them on, it's a
> little
> easier to see what I'm doing. Thanks"
>
> 3.  As I'm in the top octave of the fine tuning, the grill person
> comes in
> to get the place ready to open.  On comes the MUZAK, right above my
> head(of
> course).
>
>
> Had to vent. Now, everybody back away from the water cooler, nice and
> slow...
>
> Conrad
>
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