This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I had the opportunity to tune four pianos at NAMM last year. Ever try to tune in a very large convention center full of pianos all being tuned at = the same time? Complete chaos and cacophony would have been quieter. = Especially when you find yourself working on the same note at the same time as one = or two other techs in the same room. And you know what? It was a = fascinating high energy learning experience and I'd gladly do it again.=20 =20 -- Geoff Sykes -- Assoc. Los Angeles =20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Alan Barnard Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:47 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: RE: tuning environment Stick around awhile and you'll experience some tuning environments = that'll make noisy nursing homes seem like a nap on the beach. =20 Lawn mowers, vacuums, screeching 2-year-olds, clocks!!!, loud air conditioners and furnaces, televisions, and (at Fort Leonard Wood) the not-so-distant sound of small arms, tank shells, and the engineers = blowing up stuff ... kabooM! ... the fun just keeps on coming. =20 One that was a challenge: Junior high school tuning Hamilton on stage in gym/auditorium with concrete floor and cinder block walls, boys = basketball team shows up and they each grab a ball and start bouncing, shooting, shouting, laughing and the SHOES ... sqeak squirk eek scree. I couldn't complain because I'd gotten held up and was an hour late when I started. =20 And the number one most obnoxious sound? Someone else tuning another = piano in the background.=20 =20 Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri =20 =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: <mailto:pianotune05@comcast.net>=20 To: Pianotech List <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>=20 Sent: 02/03/2006 6:37:02 PM=20 Subject: tuning environment =20 Hi Everyone, I know it's not a technical question per sae, but I like hearing about = other technician's experiences. What has been yoru worst tuning environment? Today I tuned a piano at a nursing home, an Acrosonic. The people were great, but it always throws me off when someone comesup and asks me a question such as, "Have you found that lost chord yet." I was making = sure my thirds matched up evenly. It was great, and I scheduled them for their = next tuning already plus one of the employees there scheduled me to tune her piano in two weeks. It was a great experience, but it's hard to tune = with lots of background activity. What do you guys do in that situation, = besides make the best of it.?:) =20 Marshall ps. It was a great tuning all around however, plus they offered me = lunch! Awesome chili and corn bread. =20 -------------- Original message --------------=20 From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>=20 > At 03:57 PM 2/3/2006 -0800, Horace wrote:=20 > >Actually that has been done a number of times. When I was more active = in=20 > >institutional work, I used to do it for demonstration purposes...it = does=20 > >get folks' attention.=20 >=20 > I'm sure it does!=20 >=20 > >Also, I know specifically of one major contemporary venue in which = this=20 > >was done to the primary concert instrument...no, the technician who = did it=20 > >is no longer employed there.=20 >=20 > Ready for a different sort of institution, I would guess ... well, = there is=20 > more than one way to tell an employer to "take this job and shove it." = >=20 > sssssssssnn=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________=20 >! ;! ; Pianotech list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4d/40/fa/6d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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