Question for tuner/techs who play.

[Alan Barnard]

Yes, and this musical spiritualist medium happened to be only 4'2" tall.

At one point, she was arrested for fraud but escaped from jail that very
night.

The morning paper ran this headline: "Small Medium at Large"

A conscientious piano tuner spotted her (didn't mean to, he was squirting
mustard on a Chicago Dog at the time) and tried to make a citizen's arrest.
She fought him and he accidently struck her so she smacked him back, really
hard. There is no justice: The lady ran off laughing and the poor tuner was
arrested. The charge? Striking a happy medium.
  
Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri

P.S. The above information is distorted, twisted, or flat made-up. Except
it WAS mustard.


> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Wilson <pianotechnicianuk@yahoo.com>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 08/29/2005 8:34:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Question for tuner/techs who play.
>
> Back in the 1970s a musical spiritualist medium called
> Rosemary Brown claimed to have written down pieces
> dictated to her by chopin (amongst others).  She gave
> recitals and some of the pieces were recorded by
> competent concert pianists of the day.  
>
> She's now gone to join Chopin in the other place too!
>
> Bob
>
>
> --- Barbara Richmond <piano57@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> > Tim,
> > 
> > Heck, it's one of my favorite jokes.  What fun to
> > see the looks on people's 
> > faces after saying, "Oh, you know, that one he wrote
> > after he was 
> > dead........"
> > 
> > ;-)
> > 
> > Barbara Richmond, RPT
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "timothy ehlen" <tehlen@uiuc.edu>
> > To: <tune4u@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech"
> > <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 5:02 PM
> > Subject: RE: Question for tuner/techs who play.
> > 
> > 
> > > Alan,
> > >
> > > Posthumous=published after death of author
> > > (composer)!  I know that's what you meant...or,
> > maybe
> > > you were joking...
> > >
> > > Tim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---- Original message ----
> > >>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:15:53 -0500
> > >>From: "Alan Barnard" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
> > >>Subject: RE: Question for tuner/techs who play.
> > >>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > >>
> > >>   I usually play parts of some of these pieces
> > because
> > >>   they have big chords, octaves, or arpeggios in
> > a
> > >>   variety of keys:
> > >>
> > >>   Clair de Lune, Debussy, D flat
> > >>   Waltz in A Flat, Brahms
> > >>   C major Prelude, Bach (Well-Tempered Clavier)
> > >>   Träumerei, Schumann, F (So beautiful, such a
> > >>   masterpiece of harmonic and melodic
> > construction.
> > >>   Was one of Horowitz's favorite encore pieces, I
> > >>   believe)
> > >>   Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement, Beethoven, C#
> > > minor
> > >>   Waltz in A Flat Major, Chopin, Op.69, No.1,
> > >>   Posthumous (which, I think, means he wrote it
> > after
> > >>   he was dead)
> > >>   Prelude in C Minor, Chopin (Shows off a nice
> > bass.
> > >>   If the piano doesn't have a nice bass, I do not
> > play
> > >>   it.)
> > >>   Send In The Clowns, Sonderman, E Flat
> > >>   Für Elise, Beethoven (At least the A and A'
> > and C
> > >>   sections—and, I confess to ending with a big
> > >>   improvised arpeggios of the A minor chord to
> > the top
> > >>   of the piano, pedal down, then play the lowest
> > A
> > >>   octave and let it ring. Lotsa fun.)
> > >>
> > >>   If a new customer (regulars know better) ask me
> > to
> > >>   "play something" for them, they usually get
> > >>   something like "Chopsticks" .... which slowly
> > morphs
> > >>   into something more serious.
> > >>
> > >>   Alan Barnard
> > >>   Salem, Missouri
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     ----- Original Message -----
> > >>     From: John Delmore
> > >>     To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > >>     Sent: 08/29/2005 2:48:53 PM
> > >>     Subject: Question for tuner/techs who play.
> > >>
> > >>     Hi all:
> > >>
> > >>     I was wondering if some of the techs who play
> > have
> > >>     any favorite pieces they play when finished a
> > >>     tuning, to see how things sound musically ? 
> > I
> > >>     would think something that ranges over the
> > >>     keyboard fairly well, maybe plenty of
> > octaves, but
> > >>     not something so showy as to intimidate the
> > client
> > >>     (still want their opinion, right?).  What do
> > you
> > >>     think?
> > >>
> > >>     John Delmore
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