Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > Don't worry. PSO disease is not very contagious between normal humans. > > It seems to mostly infect small to mid-sized companies that want to > become really large companies. When they contact it, the > most visible symptom is that they begin to excrete small, > rotten-sounding disposable objects that look like pianos at an ever > increasing rate until the company becomes so weakened by the effort > that it dies. <snip> Advance notice: the following is for the most part senseless dribble, contains a few (feable?) attempts at humor, and in the end does have a legitimate question. However, it is not intended as flame bait, but rather, perhaps, as commiseration bait, and relates to Del's PSO comment. Background: My regular vocation for the past 20 years has been as an accountant. A couple of years ago, I decided to look into taking on another endeavor, first as a side-line/hobby, and later as a more regular occupation following a hopefuly early retirement (in about 10 years) from the corporate world. Wanting something that offers challenge and excitement, I first thought to persue lion taiming as the ideal avocation. Then, through a fateful series of circumstances (I'll spare you all the boring detials, other than to say it began when one of our cats [notice the considerable self-restraint exercised in not preceeding "cats" with a long string of expletives] knocked over a vase, spilling water into our piano...), that eventually led to my acquiring the Randy Potter course about two and half years ago. I tuned my first piano for a customer anout a year and a half ago, and, subsequently, have tuned perhaps two dozen pianos (I did say that for the moment, this is only a side-line). While a number of these pianos would fall into the "economy" category, they were nonetheless reasonably decent. And I have had the privilge of tuning some better quality pianos (a couple of Yamaha grands, for example). However, last night, I encountered my first Aeloian - a Conover-Cable spinnet which was transmogrified in 1974. In attempting to tune this PSO, I was reminded of the Wendy's commercials from a number of years ago - the one with the old lady saying "Where's the beef?" In this case, it was "Where's the beat?" Well, the upper trebles had plent of beats, unfortunately wild beats. At any rate, after 2 1/2 hours, I finished the tuning, did some final checks, and satisfied myself that while this may not have been my best tuning, it was my best effort with what I had to work with (and it sounded much better than when I started - "better" of course being relative). Since this very nice lady will probably be calling me back to tune her piano again in six months, I would appreciate any tips on how best to tune this sort of piano (yes, I have visions of chain saws, but that doesn't do much for customer satisfaction). BTW - I tune strictly aurally. My apologies for the length and irrelavance - I must have had too much coffee this morning.
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