"should I stay or should I go?"

[Dave Nereson]

 > Hi,
. . . . >  Also I was tuning a grand at a church one saturday morning,and 
here
> comes the choir marching in.They start singing , smiling nodding at me, 
> and when the first song was over, the choir director looked at me smiling 
> and said , we're not bothering you are we? I smiled back, and said no, I'm 
> just tuning the piano. Accutuner on auto-pilot.
> Best
> Hazen Bannister

    I would've said, "You're kidding, right?"  Uncanny how the supposedly 
musically aware types are the worst offenders, wheareas often the janitors 
know the tuner can't really hear what s/he's doing with the vacuum going. 
Professional musicians are the worst.  They come in while you're still 
tuning and start tuning, blaring, bleating, and sawing away as though you 
weren't even there.
    A colleague of mine was called to tune on an auditorium stage after 
school.  The piano teacher who called him proceeded to give a piano lesson 
in the orchestra pit, expecting him to be able to tune up on the stage at 
the same time.  How she expected the student or the tuner to hear and retain 
sanity is anyone's guess.
    --David Nereson, RPT