[CAUT] they stayed :o

[michelle stranges]

:D

Wow-

I really am enjoying some of these stories.
Keep 'em coming!!

:)
Michelle

--On Friday, September 2, 2005 11:09 AM -0700 Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> 
wrote:

> At 01:01 PM 9/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> Susan,
>>
>> Lucky you. On one of my first paying jobs, a treble string broke. I
>> still  didn't have piano wire or tools to do it with. :-(
>>
>> Avery
>
> <grin> I started out bringing my tuning tools in a large purse.
>
> My first private customer had an old painted upright, some of it a
> perfect fourth flat. The rest was only down a major third. I raised it by
> a semitone per pass, and broken nothing. Even tuned it again a few times
> before I left town.
>
> While still in the course, I did a pitch raise on a nice little 1900's
> miniature, a Bell Pianette. The owner was a voice major, and needed it to
> pitch. I broke a string. I had the gear (can't remember if I had to make
> another trip to bring it.) I removed the other side of the broken string
> -- NOT. I cut a perfectly good one just to the left of it, had to replace
> both. <grin>  _______________________________________________
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