---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear List, I am a list lurker and enjoy reading posts in the attempts of bettering my=20 ever growing knowledge of pianos, but I am not a piano technician, rather I=20 work with 3 technicians. I thought that this post might add a little levity= =20 :-) A call came in today from a customer who had something "very wrong" with one= =20 of the notes on her piano. She had it tuned 2 weeks ago and today one of th= e=20 notes started "acting funny". She was quite displeased that her tuning=20 wouldn't hold for "at least a month" and wasn't there some "warranty" that=20 we apply to tunings. Now for one out of whack note our technician would go=20 out and take care of it but I also tried to take a moment to explain how=20 weather and other factors can play a part in tuning stability. My thought=20 was that maybe recent weather changes could have been the problem. After a=20 brief "education" on how certain things can affect the tuning, I told her=20 that our technician would call her back when he came in. Upon the return=20 call she received from our technician she was asked to play, over the phone,= =20 the piano so our technician could understand what her problem was. She=20 explained that she was a beginner player and was trying to practice the=20 exercises her teacher had given her. So over the phone she played her first= =20 exercise (the first four notes of the C chord) C, D, E, & F. This sounded=20 good, then she played her second exercise - F, G, A, B. It was that "darn B= =20 that had been giving her problem all day long!" So at our technician's=20 request he had her play the B flat instead of B (F, G, A, B flat). She=20 exclaimed, "That's how its supposed to sound!" She had been bugged all day=20 that "her piano wasn't holding its tune" and all it was was an inexperienced= =20 player playing the wrong notes of an F chord. But of course, if something isn't right, its the work of the technician :-) ~Lanie _________________________________________________ Moody Piano & Organ Metro West Plaza (rear) 796 Boston Post Road East Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone 508-877-2222 or 508-229-3601 =E2=80=A2 Fax 508-303-8996 <A HREF=3D"mailto:MoodyPiano@aol.com">MoodyPiano@aol.com</A> =E2=80=A2 <A HR= EF=3D"http://www.bushellcompanies.com">www.bushellcompanies.com</A>=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/71/84/8c/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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