This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You should have tuned it to a lower stretch number, like #1 Jim James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, piano benches, writing = instruments (314) 608-4137 WWW.JamesGrebe.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Piannaman@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:53 AM Subject: Not what I signed up for Hi List, Just a little vent...I got a call a few weeks back from a woman I'd = tuned an Acrosonic for about 5 months ago, saying the piano needed to be = retuned. Okay, It was some 30 cents flat or so, o that makes sense. =20 When I arrived on the scene, the bass sounded kind of crappy, and the = treble had gone fairly far flat. And some of the aging rubber lifter = grommets were clicking in the forks. NO big deal. The lady of the = house who I had worked for before was not home. Instead, a rather CEO = looking man came to the rather large door of the huge and well-appointed = house on the golf cours. =20 We discussed the situation. I explained that even with the best = possible tuning by the best tuner in the world, the Acro would never = sound as "in tune" as their son's Charles Walter studio that I also = tune. He explained that he understood that, but that they just wanted = it to play at family gatherings. Given their apparent financial = situation, I gently pointed out that they would get far more musical = satisfaction from a better quality instrument, and that they should = limit their expectations for this one. Blah, blah, blah. =20 Then he saw my pocket PC and asked about the Tunelab program. I = explained a bit about it, at which point he told me that he wanted me to = tune to the computer. I said okay, but as I tuned, it became apparent = to me that my ear did not agree with what I was seeing, especially in = the upper octaves. This is precisely where he came in to watch me tune, = silent as a statue, for a good 30 minutes. =20 What it boils down to is that I work for myself for many reasons, the = biggest one being that I don't have to be told what to do. This = situation was aggravating. It was evident that the man of the house was = used to telling people what to do and getting his way most of the time. = I'm used to using MY judgement, not that of a person without a musical = bone in his body. The tuning was way too stretched in the treble, to the point of having = octaves that were strident, but I did it the way he had asked. I hope = his wife is happy with it(and/or him...(-:). Thanks for listening, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/0c/2e/2b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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