This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment It has been said that one of the ingredients used to moth proof hammers = was the addition of arsenic. Our noses are stuck inside pianos all day = with the hammer cutting into the felt releasing all this moth proofing = stuff to suck in our noses. I have never heard it denied that arsenic = was/is used. 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: Ed Carwithen=20 To: PTG Pianotech=20 Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:08 PM Subject: Dry Throat? I keep having trouble with irritated throat while tuning. Does anyone = else? After a day of several tunings my throat feels as if I have gone = through a very long ardurous choral rehearsal. I have to have lozenges = (sp) in my pocket at all times or I suffer major coughing fits. Years ago, while studying at Eastman School of Music I had to do a = presentation on tunings, and I played a recording of ascending tones. A = very odd reaction occurred in which many of the people in the class = experienced a throat constriction as the pitch being heard reached the = top of their vocal range. This was obvious as people swallowed, or = clutched at their throats as the sensation hit them. We all laughed at = it at the time. Now I wonder if, in tuning, I am unconsciously matching = the pitches I am sounding with a tightening of my vocal chords. Does this problem resonate with anyone else? =20 Ed Carwithen John Day, OR ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/90/b4/19/08/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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