[CAUT] they stayed :o

[Barbara Richmond]

Well, I never said anything about their <incredibly loud snoring>  :-), but 
I've awakened people and suggested that they take their nap in another room.

Enough people have fallen asleep while I've worked, I was
considering making a recording of my tuning and selling it to insomniacs.

Barbara Richmond, RPT



----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Love
To: 'College and University Technicians'
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:54 PM
Subject: RE: [CAUT] they stayed :o


What would you have done if he'd started snoring really loud?

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Don
Mannino
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:46 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] they stayed :o

My favorite related story is about a client who always enjoyed staying in
the room for the tuning.

He would settle into his easy chair across the room and chat while I got
ready to tune, then as I started tuning he would doze off, sleeping through
the tuning!  I am not exactly light with my test blows, but I remember
wondering if I should back off a little.

After this happened at 3 or 4 appointments I finally asked him whether the
loud tuning doesn't bother him.  He said, well, yes I play the notes pretty
loud, but very consistent.  There was something soothing to him about the
sound.  I told him it's OK with me, I just wondered.

Maybe his mother had the piano tuned a lot while she was pregnant with him,
who knows!

Don Mannino RPT