I'm SO glad I'm retiring!!!!! :-D Avery At 12:32 PM 5/6/2007, you wrote: >Hi Jerry, > >Even with an ETD I can't tolerate a vacuum. However, I was able to >get through a tuning on a dock staging area that had one of those >huge blowers going. That was the first tuning I did totally with >the machine, string by string. I was amazed at how good the tuning >was then next morning (at 6:00 am) when I was contracted to do the >"touch-up." Performance conditions and schedules are sometimes pretty weird. > >Barbara Richmond, RPT >near Peoria, IL > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:ArbeauPiano at comcast.net>Arbeau Piano >To: <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>pianotech at ptg.org >Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:10 AM >Subject: Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor? > > >Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 6:45 PM >Subject: Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor? > >This week while tuning a church sancturary piano, a young man >dragging a large canister vacuum cleaner behind him entered the >sancturary and paused noticing what I was doing. Without a word he >left the room. > >A few minutes later an older janitor walked up behind me, looked >over my shoulder very intently watching my tuning process, and then >quickly exited to the hall without a word to converse with the younger one. > >The conversation to the younger was, "If he were tuning with one of >those machines you could have gone ahead and vacuumed, but since he >tunes by ear you'll just have to wait until he is done.' > >I'm so glad that I had just put away my verituner before I had >started my fine tuning and aural checks! Do you find that you can >tune with a vacuum cleaner in the background with one of those "machines"?! > >Jerry Arbeau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070506/a3d6e061/attachment.html
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