treble phenomenon

[Mike Musial]

>Why is it that while tuning a piano ,all is calm & quite untill you start
>tuning the treble section? Then vaccums start ,dishes are being washed,
>dogs start to howl, washers & dryers are started & kids start scrapping.
>Its hard enough to hear in this section when its quite. Does anyone else
>have this problem, or am I the only lucky one this happens to.
>I don't want to get real fussy with my customers & lose their business.I
>would appreciate any ideas that some of you out there have& how do you
>handle these kind of situations.

This could be a good example of Chaos Theory. Like the flap of a butterfly's
wings in Brazil setting off a tornado in Texas, the mere act of moving into
the undamped section of a piano in the course of tuning can set off any
number of actions. The neighbor next door decides NOW is a good time to cut
the grass. Nearby construction workers begin cutting many lengths of wood
with a power saw. The kid down the block decides to see if his new
bass-kicker car stereo can shatter any nearby windows. Most of the time this
phenomenon puts a smile on my face because it seems to happen so frequently.
Todays occurrence at a church  was not so bad. I was pondering why the
treble sounded so odd when I realized that someone picked that moment to
turn on the ceiling fans.  This was not such a difficult situation to rectify.

Mike Musial RPT
Reedsville Pa