Yesterday I tuned a 50 year old Wurltizer spinet and a 75 year old Winter grand, both is the same home. Both needed a lot of work, but what's so unique about these two pianos, is that they sit next to each other in the living room, and they are the only pieces of furniture in the whole place. It's a rather small apartment of a Chinese family who have only been in Hawaii a few months, but there is no other stick of furniture in the whole place. There is no TV, no desk, no chairs, no tables, nothing. I was able to glance in the two bedrooms to see only mattresses on the floor. I learned from the teenage son, who was the interpreter for the family, that he, his dad and his younger sister, all play the piano. They left a Kawai studio back in China. While I was working on the pianos, the teenager stood at the kitchen counter reading a book, the younger sister sat on the floor watching a Disney movie on a lap top, and the father and mother tried to keep a 5 year old boy out of my tool kit. I don't know why they are here, other than the teen eager said he's here to go to school. I guess for some families, having two pianos is more important than a dining room table, a couch, much less a big screen TV. Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100720/2dd58f38/attachment.htm>
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