At 0930 PM 10/18/1998 -0500, you wrote Hi, I tuned a funky Zimmerman Grand, one that I have tuned before and always left feeling glad to be out of the house-} A few days later, she called saying that there was a note that sounded very off. I went out, prepared to hear just about anything because this piano fluctuates quite a bit, probably due to weather and bad design. >first. She was playing both keys - E and F together and assuming that they >(a minor 2nd) would sound "in tune" or sound great to her ear. >YYEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y...E...O...W...!! is what I said when her boyfriend played a minor 6th, E4 - C5, and to confirm that something was wrong on more than one note, he played the E5 - C6, saying that it did not sound as pretty as the other notes. After I picked up my tongue, like Jim Carey in The Mask, I launched into a kind explanation of intervals and such. I think he bought it and I left, talking to myself in the car and shaking my head. I now wish I had waited until I had turned off his street because his neighbors probably asked about that guy shaking his head and talking, alone in his car.-} I actually think they remain my clients because she called a few months later for some advise about her mother's piano. Ken Hale D C AL CODA YourTraySpell Words Suite http://www.dcalcoda.com/
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