Unless you can see the joy in the world as it and you change and you learn to enjoy adapting to it! I'm personally having a terrific time getting older--arthritis, sciatica, eye and dental issues, male pattern everything, all that aside! The world is such a strange and wonderful place, and what a hoot to be a part of it with the obligation of creating more joy and love in it. Paul Getting older is no fun. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 7:50 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] OFF topic It's happening to me. I'm starting to hear things a half step sharp! Used to be, after taking out the temperament strip, I'd never look at the keys as I went up or down the keyboard chromatically, because I knew where I was. Now I find myself reaching for that Db, and then realizing that the C that I just tuned was actually a B! I used to be able to tell what keys songs on the radio were in. Now, I have to wonder...did the Beatles really play that in the key of Ab? Then I think, it's probably in G, and I'm just hearing sharp again. This is like losing your sight or not being able to walk without a cane any longer. It's jarring. It's depressing. Getting older is no fun. Tom Sivak Chicago --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> wrote: > From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] OFF topic > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 11:13 AM > Gary Bruce wrote: > > Never heard of that one before. How do you know she > heard an E-flat? > > > > On Mon, November 24, 2008 7:08 pm, Leslie Bartlett > wrote: > >> I tuned today for a musician, in her 60's, > outstanding as pianist, > >> organist, composer. She said she had very good > pitch in younger years, > >> but now she hears everything a half step flat. > Playing a few notes on > >> piano, and sure enough, playing an E she heard > E-flat, and so forth. > >> > >> Anyone had experience with this king of thing? > >> les bartlett > >> > >> > > > > > > Gary Bruce, RPT > > Bruce Musical Services, Inc. > > a440 at brucemusical.com > > > > > > What was the actual pitch of the instrument? Had a > previous tuner tuned > the beastie a half step flat because the pins wouldn't > hold any higher???? > > -- > Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician > Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 > 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081125/f894fd39/attachment-0001.html>
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