Bad Rap

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: November 24, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Bad Rap


>
> >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
>


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Does this mean I'm going to be doing my best work seven or eight years
after I've passed on? Sounds like there may be hope for me yet.

Del