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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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, “Bwraaaawk!”. The tuning wasn’t the best but I
wasn’t going to mess with this bird – they crack Brazil nuts in
their beaks for breakfast! </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=2 color=red face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:red;font-style:italic'>Eric
Wolfley, RPT</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:red;font-style:italic'>Supervising
Piano Technician</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:red;font-style:italic'>College-Conservatory
of Music</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:red;font-style:italic'>University
of Cincinnati</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> caut-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Don
Mannino<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 02, 2005
3:46 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> College and University
Technicians<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CAUT] they stayed :o</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>My favorite
related story is about a client who always enjoyed staying in the room for the
tuning. </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>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.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Maybe his
mother had the piano tuned a lot while she was pregnant with him, who knows!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Don Mannino
RPT</span></font></p>
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