What do you tell a 90 year old lady....

[Richard Brekne]

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Big Grin... very funny story Wim... ahhhhh yes... what DO you do
in a situation like that ? I am not sure you can tell her
anything. Perhaps you could try telling her how nice her eyes
shine... get her thinking about something else...

otherwise you might try cheating on the pedal as much as you can
so that it barely pulls the dampers away...

Good luck on this one Wim

Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:

> .... who insists the pedals aren't working right?
>
> Situation. Lady approaches me at church and tells me her last
> tuner did
> something wrong to her pedals. I got there today. It's a
> Acrosonic, and the
> last tuner put on new bass dampers. When she played, she kept
> her foot on the
> sustain pedal, and then complained that the bass notes kept
> ringing. For a 90
> year old, she is pretty alert, and played half way decent. When
> I played, I
> used the pedal like you're supposed to, lifting my foot when
> the chord would
> change. She looked at me and said, "I have been playing for a
> long time, and
> I never lift my foot like you do. I just kept it down all the
> time. That is
> the way I have always played. But now the piano just keeps on
> sounding. Why
> is that? What is wrong with the piano?" I tried to convince her
> there is
> nothing wrong with the piano. But how do you tell a 90 year old
> lady she
> doesn't know how to pedal correctly?
>
> Willem

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no


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