unexpected fun, sometimes

[Farrell]

Yup.

I tuned a very pleasant 1957 Baldwin M the other day. Original owner. Piano all original. Lovely even tone. No killer octave. Maybe two notes in the high treble had something less that perfectly clear beatless strings - except for those two, all notes could be tuned perfectly beatless. It was very satisfying. I spent a long time tuning that piano - but only because I could tell that anything less that near-perfect was due to me - so I went for it. Fun.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: unexpected fun, sometimes


> 
> >Sometimes its the piano, and sometimes its the customer. Some of my most 
> >memorable service appointments have been to go to a lower-income home with 
> >the little spinet that has not been tuned in 20+ years. Often the owner 
> >plays for the church choir or some such. After pitch raising 150 cents and 
> >tuning it sounds OK. The lady sits down to play it and either starts 
> >crying or laughing or both........."Oh glory! I never knew it could sound 
> >like that!" etc., etc.
> >
> >Those give me a good 24-hour smile!
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> 
> 
> Absolutely. Then you go to the next one, which is a 5 year old grand with 
> the second worst killer octave and wildest treble on the planet, and do the 
> "why can't you make a fine grand that's this expensive and no older than 
> this sound any better?" conversation.
> 
> It sort of evens out.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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