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

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Regarding old women.

I was just "tuning" a %$/$#  Princess Ingrid spinet for an 86 year old 
woman. She fortunately realized that the spinet was what it 
was.  Thankfully she was much more interested in reading my fortune from a 
coffee cup, two of them, actually. <g>

I don´t see why the old woman should take it badly if you explain to her 
how the pedal works.  They´re always so nice, aren´t they?

Kristinn

P.S. And they´re ALWAYS so eager to pay, and give you chocolate or whatever. :)



At 18:19 2.3.2001 +0100, you wrote:
>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
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