a positive note, was Re: Amazing Race

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  So I'm tuning this PSO little Chinese built grand piano with some brown stains amongst the tuning pins in a really noisy restaurant atmosphere. Can't hear much, but Tunelab comes to the rescue.
 
 A waitress comes over as I'm finishing up and says, "wow, that looks really hard. I saw them trying to do it on "the Amazing Race" the other night...."
 
 So maybe this shows a far greater segment of society how much skill is required to tune a piano than might otherwise be exposed to that knowledge....albeit in a cheesy sort of way!
 
 
    Dave Stahl, RPT
 
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 -----Original Message-----
 From: wayne.w at musicstop.com
 To: pianotech at ptg.org
 Sent: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 7:24 AM
 Subject: RE: Amazing Race
 
  Hey,it's not that cold here.....................................do it the summer    Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician   Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1  902-221-1540 902-496-0041 Fax www.musicstop.com     -----Original Message-----
 From: Moffatt [mailto:moffatt5 at telus.net] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:56 AM
 To: Pianotech List
 Subject: Re: Amazing Race
 
  Hold the show in Canada. Main problem?...Keep warm.    ----- Original Message -----  From: paul bruesch  To: Pianotech List  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Amazing Race 
  I think it's another fine example of how far south we go now in the name of "entertainment". I'm thrilled that I missed it. Can't recall where it is that I recognize the name of the show from, but one can be assured that I have never wasted ten seconds watching it. 
 Signed,
 Another Paul in the piano business... 
 
 On 4/2/07, Paul McCloud <service at pianosd.com> wrote:     Yeah, I saw that too. I was cracking up- it's SOOO easy to tune a piano…HAH! What a hoot…. The guy giving the okay was pretty lenient, too. Pity the poor guy who had to replace those strings. I wonder if the tuning pins got loose from all that restringing.    Paul McCloud  San Diego     -----Original Message-----
 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Walker
 Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:40 AM
 To: pianotech at ptg.org
 Subject: Amazing Race    Did anyone on the list watch The Amazing Race last night. The contestants were in Warsaw Poland as part of the game they had to find a single string on a unison left flat and tune it on a grand . Once this was done a someone would play a little Chopin and determine if the tuning was okay for them to proceed. About 3 or 4 strings got broken during this segment by different contestants. The tuner replacing the strings didn't seem very happy towards the end.       Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1 902-221-1540 902-496-0041 Fax www.musicstop.com          I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users.
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