Boris revisited

[Les Smith]

On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, robert sadowski wrote:

> List,
>      Just saw some work done by our local "Boris".  He was ask to tune a
> Cable spinet.  When he was done he left behind one broken plastic elbow, a
> broken string in the tenor, used a temperament I'm not familiar with and
> left a bill for $65.00.  Interesting how being from the land of
> Rachmaninoff seems to give instant credibility.

Of course, Rachmaninoff was a pianist/composer and couldn't tune his way
out of paper bag, either. Maybe one of the reasons he came to the US was
to escape Russian tuners, huh? Didn't Bill Hupfer used to tune for him?

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net