My most memorable tuning in a nursing home was when I was new to tuning. An old lady across the room started shouting as soon as I started tuning; "Don't Bang on the Piano! Don't bang on the piano!" She never stopped. It took me four hours to do a tuning and pitch raise. Diane tuning in a nursing home Bruce Dornfeld bdornfeld at earthlink.net Sun Feb 10 21:53:04 MST 2008 Previous message: Meet the Lookersons Next message: Indexing drill head for hammer boring Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my most memorable tuning experiences took place in a nursing home a couple of decades ago. While I was tuning a small grand of more years than quality, twenty to thirty residents were milling about or sitting in this larger room. The tuning probably preempted whatever folks were gathering there for. Of course some asked what I was doing, but for the most part they ignored me and let me tune. As normal, I had the lid up to tune. When I was finally nearly done and tuning the bass, it happened. A bass string broke at the agraffe and flew out of the piano. I nearly fell off of the bench to the floor in fright. The string was propelled straight out from me went about twenty feet away and then hit the wall. I walked over and picked it up and only then realized: nobody there but me noticed the flying string. Since that time I am very aware and cautious when anyone stands at the end of the piano while I am tuning. I do ask them to move now. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter, Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080210/007f35ae/attachment.html Diane Hofstetter
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