---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi List, Just a little vent...I got a call a few weeks back from a woman I'd tuned an Acrosonic for about 5 months ago, saying the piano needed to be retuned. Okay, It was some 30 cents flat or so, o that makes sense. When I arrived on the scene, the bass sounded kind of crappy, and the treble had gone fairly far flat. And some of the aging rubber lifter grommets were clicking in the forks. NO big deal. The lady of the house who I had worked for before was not home. Instead, a rather CEO looking man came to the rather large door of the huge and well-appointed house on the golf cours. We discussed the situation. I explained that even with the best possible tuning by the best tuner in the world, the Acro would never sound as "in tune" as their son's Charles Walter studio that I also tune. He explained that he understood that, but that they just wanted it to play at family gatherings. Given their apparent financial situation, I gently pointed out that they would get far more musical satisfaction from a better quality instrument, and that they should limit their expectations for this one. Blah, blah, blah. Then he saw my pocket PC and asked about the Tunelab program. I explained a bit about it, at which point he told me that he wanted me to tune to the computer. I said okay, but as I tuned, it became apparent to me that my ear did not agree with what I was seeing, especially in the upper octaves. This is precisely where he came in to watch me tune, silent as a statue, for a good 30 minutes. What it boils down to is that I work for myself for many reasons, the biggest one being that I don't have to be told what to do. This situation was aggravating. It was evident that the man of the house was used to telling people what to do and getting his way most of the time. I'm used to using MY judgement, not that of a person without a musical bone in his body. The tuning was way too stretched in the treble, to the point of having octaves that were strident, but I did it the way he had asked. I hope his wife is happy with it(and/or him...(-:). Thanks for listening, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b2/61/72/99/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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