<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = khtml-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080>My favorite = related story is about a client who always enjoyed staying in the room for the tuning.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080>Maybe his = mother had the piano tuned a lot while she was pregnant with him, who knows!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=719204119-02092005><FONT color=#000080>Don Mannino RPT</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>