<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <title>Message</title> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='WORD-WRAP: = break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space;khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> What would you have done if = he’d started snoring really loud?   <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net </div> -----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   <div> My = favorite related story is about a client who always enjoyed staying in the room = for the tuning.  </div> <div>   </div> <div> 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. </div> <div>   </div> <div> 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. </div> <div>   </div> <div> Maybe his mother had the piano tuned a lot while she was pregnant with him, who = knows! </div> <div>   </div> <div> Don = Mannino RPT </div> </div> </body> </html>