[CAUT] they stayed :o

[michelle stranges]

:D

Blwaaa!!!!

That's HILLARIOUS!

:)
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--On Friday, September 2, 2005 4:11 PM -0400 "Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" 
<WOLFLEEL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote:

>
>
> My least favorite early-career related story is about a client who let me
> in and then left to go to the grocery. Unfortunately she had left her
> macaw (a very large parrot-like bird) out of the cage. The macaw landed
> atop a chair on the other side of the room and watched me get my tools
> out. I thought, well this is OK as long as he (she) stayed over there so
> I began to tune the large old Steinway upright. The only problem was that
> every time I hit a note, the macaw let out a (very) loud screech. It
> would sit there looking at me remaining perfectly quiet until I played a
> note and then, &#8220;Bwraaaawk!&#8221;.  The tuning wasn&#8217;t the
> best but I wasn&#8217;t going to mess with this bird &#8211; they crack
> Brazil nuts in their beaks for breakfast!
>
>
>
> Eric Wolfley, RPT
>
> Supervising Piano Technician
>
> College-Conservatory of Music
>
> University of Cincinnati
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Don
> Mannino Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:46 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