OK, I got an emergency service call at Stanford's Memorial Church. I came at 4 pm and found of the organist practicing for his performance. Sorry, he could not stop. Yikes! You have no idea what that was like. I had to tune it somehow...SAT III. I didn't have my magnetic mic! Darn! I basically tuned in between organ tones. Imagine the reverberation of a big church....yeah, it was real fun. Amazingly, Paul Kummer, the regular Stanford technician, commented on how well tuned the piano was when he came back a few weeks later. David I. ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:21:01 -0600 Subject: Why I'm the tuner and they aren't... >Favorite things come in threes, right? >1. This morning, I tuned my favorite PSO on campus. 42" console which could >be the poster child for flagpoling tuning pins. (Some bass pins are showing >¼" of thread above the plate) Driving pins not advised because then all the >strings would walk up over the coils. Located in a basement coffee shop >w/entertainment area (stage/dance floor). Humidity control non-existant and >pitch regularly varies between 435/444... today it was 433.1 Hz. >2. Cleaning person was vacuuming when I got there. No big deal with laptop >based RCT and microphone dropped down into case. When the vacuuming was >finished, I was asked if I wanted all the light turned off. Hmmm, let me >see... 6AM/interior basement room... "Nah, leave them on, it's a little >easier to see what I'm doing. Thanks" >3. As I'm in the top octave of the fine tuning, the grill person comes in >to get the place ready to open. On comes the MUZAK, right above my head(of >course). >Had to vent. Now, everybody back away from the water cooler, nice and slow... >Conrad >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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