Good thing you have tenure...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 6/15/2006 8:56:08 AM Subject: "tinny" - pet peeves >At 08:36 AM 6/15/2006, Tom Cole wrote: >>David Nereson wrote: >>>... >>>I don't know why it grates on me so, but I wish people, especially >>>technicians, would not just use a term like "tinny" automatically >>>in describing, in this case, a unison that's not beatless. To me, >>>the habit falls in the same category as calling the hammers the >>>"pads," and the plate the "harp." >>> >>Another one I find puzzling is "casters" when they mean caster cups. >What gets to me is that people call everything you do to a piano >"tuning". The other day I was standing in Studio One at San >Francisco State with a big heavy hammer in my hand, stringing a >Hamburg D, pounding away at it. This woman walks in and says (and I >quote) "Do you work here or are you just tuning the piano?" I gave >her a funny look and asked her: "Do you see anything here that could >possibly be tuned? And what else could this be that I'm doing if not >working?" You sholda seen the look on her face... >Israel Stein
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