---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment >I recall fondly one of these conversations with a piano owner some years >back. After patiently (and deliberately) listening to her go on an on in >great detail about what a terrible job the previous tuner had done (and I >had to agree, the tuning did sound pretty bad) I asked her when the tuner >in question had last tuned her piano. The question did slow her down a bit >but still she came up with something like, "why, it was just last year, I >think." I allowed as to how I could understand the gentleman in question >might no longer be doing his best work -- he had been dead for about seven >or eight years by then. > >Del Ah, but pianos aren't on the same time scale as technicians. It's like dog years, only the scale changes with the venue. For instance, as you observe, one year between tunings can be over eight times that long, but five years in a school system ages a piano twenty years, while the same model piano sitting in someone's home stopped aging altogether at least seventy years ago and is just starting to sound really good. Ron N ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.538 / Virus Database: 333 - Release Date: 11/10/2003 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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