When I tuned for a store, they sold a piano to a family whose daughter needed a better piano for lessons. The store gave a free in home tuning, and afterwards I was glad the girl had a decent make and good sounding piano. Then the store calls back and says the student thinks it is out of tune, so back I go and it is fine. The store calls again and says they still think it is out of tune, so I suggest they send another tuner. About two months later I get a call, the piano is still out, would I go out once more and check things out, we will pay you of course. The piano sounded, good, great in fact, then I remembered I forgot to ask if they had sent another tuner out, so I wondering who I was tuning behind. I checked the temperament, the octaves and double octaves, fifths and double fifths etc etc. Suppose he had used !gasp! a machine. This time I was able to ask the girl, but she could not tell me where the piano sounded out of tune, just that it sounded much different from her teacher's piano. So I suggested she use her teacher's tuner. . " She can't remember who tuned it. She said it was seven years ago." I half expected to see this in "Joy Luck Club" as this happened in San Francisco. Richard Moody
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