Ok, I wrote: >> Mistakes can be made and triumphs be savored. I had one this morning, >> involving a redhead and a Yamaha,.. The redhead is a country music singer, and I was tuning the piano for a songwriter that had a writing date with her later today. He also had a case of writer's block, which I didn't know about. I proposed that I make a slight change in his temperament, and use a Victorian style tuning on the piano,(hey, it's a nice day, why not?). He went for it. As I was going through, I played a big G chord in the middle of the piano, and he came in and said, "That's me, right there!, I don't know what you are doing, but that is what I've been looking for". When finished, he took off on it. He was incredulous at how the sounds that he had been imagining were all of a sudden, right there! He is sold and told me to leave the top up, he was going to spend the rest of the morning playing, since he had never heard his Yamaha sound so good. Oh, the redhead? She will be cutting her next album shortly, and if we get a 19th century tuning on a country hit, this list will be the first to know. Regards, Ed Foote
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