SOMEONE GO! was RE: look at eBay for a good laugh

[Kevin Way]

Alan,

          Thanks for the laugh, does this lady live next door to peter pan?

Kevin Way
Joplin, Missouri

Alan wrote:

> Re: The self-tuning Acrosonics
>  
> I sent the eBay lady an eMail. This is my eMessage and what she eSent 
> back.
>  
> /"I'm sorry, but you are either seriously missinformed or trying to 
> fool someone, either way you are misrepresenting your piano. It may be 
> keeping people from bidding. If that piano hasn't been tuned in 25 
> years, it is hideosly, horribly, revoltingly out of tune. There is no 
> such thing as a self tuning piano. You may like how it sounds (?) but 
> it is NOT in tune. Actually, Acrosonics do have a reputation for 
> holding their tune well and in California, which doesn't experience 
> the wide humidity swings of the South or Midwest, you can probably get 
> by with one tuning a year. But NO piano sounds good after 25 years. 
> I'm a professional piano technician and member of the Piano 
> Technicians Guild. Your ad is all "achatter" on our tech website. We 
> think it's pretty funny, actually. Thought you'd like to know. Alan 
> Barnard"
>
> />>> You are welcome to meet me to try it out for yourself. We bought 
> the piano in Chicago (wide temp. & humidity fluctuations) and moved 
> out here with it 3 years ago. I am telling you the truth. It may not 
> match the pitch on an electronic keyboard, but from one note to the 
> next, it is in tune! Do re me, etc. I was at the storage facility not 
> 2 months ago & I played it! I would love to prove it to you! Are you 
> near San Diego?
> Someone out there pleeeeaaaase go see this miracle piano and report 
> back to us.
>  
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
>     [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] *On Behalf Of *Tvak@aol.com
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:54 PM
>     *To:* pianotech@ptg.org
>     *Subject:* look at eBay for a good laugh
>
>     List
>
>     Entitled LOVELY BALDWIN SELF TUNING PIANO, (Item number:
>     7313688832) this item is presently for sale in eBay.  No one has
>     bid on it yet!  I think some of my clients must have this same
>     model, because they call me once and then I don't hear from them
>     again for 5 years or more.
>
>     Below is the description of the item, taken from the eBay listing
>     itself.
>
>     Tom Sivak
>     Chicago Chapter PTG Associate
>
>     ************************************************************************************************************************
>
>     This lovely Baldwin acrosonic piano has been in my family for 25
>     years. We bought it new. It somehow self-adjusts so that the notes
>     remain in tune relative to each other, but compared to the same
>     note on an electronic keyboard, or pitch fork, it will probably be
>     off. It could use a professional tuning after 25 years. We never
>     tuned it!! Even after moving with me from Chicago (large
>     temperature & humidity fluctuations) and sitting in a
>     (climate-controlled) storage facility for two years, it's it tune! 
>
>     ** A piano technician has informed me that there is no such thing
>     as a "self-tuning" piano.  I, however, stand by my convictions
>     that THIS piano has remained in tune (one note in relation to the
>     next) for the time that we've owned it.  If a buyer is expecting
>     to tune a piano once or twice a year ($80-150 each time), they
>     will be pleasantly surprised by the lack of maintenance required
>     for this particular piano.  I cannot vouch for other owners of
>     Acrosonic models. ***
>
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