Teen tuner

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Good evening Antares,

Drum roll,
I´m somewhere around the 1000 mark, when I take together everything.  I 
don´t have it exactly documented.

Please, bear with me people, I feel the need to include the rest of what 
I´m about to write.

I tuned my first whole piano 2 1/2 months after starting the studies, (in 3 
hrs 50min still remember that), got good results, 84 % I think, judged by 
my teacher somehow.
Took a final tuning test in the Emil Fries School of Piano Tuning and 
Technology after 4 months and scored a 95%, again judged somehow by my very 
experienced teacher (RPT).
I had been around this business and listened to my father tune a lot before 
I started studying so I grasped it in a shorter time than average.

After I got home from the States I tuned for a concert 3 months later that 
was eventually broadcasted on the national radio.

I still remember how proud I was.  I had tears in my eyes.

I heard many people in the intermission talking about "how beautiful" it 
sounded, and I KNEW that I had something to do with that.
After the concert I met the pianist, and he thanked me.
"Thank you.  This was very good. VERY good", he said.
I saw he was a bit surprised because he is also a piano teacher at a 
conservatory that I had been going to as a piano student.

Another gratifying experience was around my 19th birthday.

The Queen of Denmark was visiting the country, and the aforementioned trio, 
(The Reykjavík Trio) was to be performing at the presidential mansion.
That day being close to my birthday I "demanded" from my father to get the 
tuning, for a birthday present, which he couldn´t legitimately refuse...

I went and tuned (for the Queen), and the day after the pianist called my 
father, (actually he was calling for me because he also happened to be my 
teacher, but a very respected pianist here also)

"I wanted to thank you for the tuning, it was very good.  You tuned, didn´t 
you?", he said.
"No, I sent Kristinn"
"Kristinn ???"

That felt veeeeeryyyy good.  I didn´t mind having my work confused with my 
father´s.


I wouldn´t be afraid at all to let you hear some of the CD´s I´ve tuned for.
So I believe I can stand comparison in that matter.
There´s one coming out in a few weeks, but I´ve heard it.  It´s the 
Reykjavík Trio performing  Beethoven and Dvorák, as well as a piece by an 
Icelandic composer.  Great stuff.

I bow in respect to you old guys/gals.
Like Newton said so beautifully upon hearing of my lack of degeneration, 
"This guy´s too young to know ANYTHING!!!)

But I can do a very good tuning.

I still have a long way to go before I´m a concert regulator and voicer, 
but that´s nothing but normal I´d say, so I don´t feel ashamed of that.
I have a long time left to learn.

That´s as honest as I can be, Antares.
Thanks for bearing with me, sorry for the corny stuff, but I had to do it 
for the credibility.

Kristinn



At 19:51 24.10.2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Kristinn Leifsson,
>
>I started tuning in the early 70's.
>In those days it was still customary to tune 7 piano's a day.
>
>I like a joke too, but I wonder how many piano's you have tuned..... and I
>would appreciate an honest answer.
>
>Antares
>
> > From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:05:08 +0000
> > To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > Subject: Re: I simply do not agree, even after many years
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Antares
> >>
> >> PS.
> >> I have now tuned more than 40 000 piano's (just so you do not think that I
> >> 'just started')
> >
> >
> > Wow Antares!
> > Since this morning?
> >
> > Kristinn
> >
> >