Whew! Fortunately the client sounds extraordinarily understanding. Thank goodness for clients like that!! God bless 'em. It hasn't happened to me yet, although I've heard the stories from some of the old timers. Sometimes they can break a while AFTER the tuning. I guess there's a reason we don't usually hear about Willis La Ronde pianos! We feel your pain. Hopefully you got the one broken plate of your career out of the way! On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Allan <allan at sutton.net> wrote: > It happened to me today, > > This sound I will never forget. > > This was a very small piano, built in the 60's (Willis La Ronde) > > The lady stayed throughout most of the pitchraise (almost one semitone) > telling me the stories of her childhood as child musician, very touching > stories indeed that made the break so much more dramatic. > > I was done! 3 top notes left on this second pass. One string had broken > earlier. > > We did not "really" cry. I sat on the floor for 10 minutes as she found > positive angles to this happening. She will get a new, better piano.... we > will not have to replace the broken string... some detachment must be in > order... > > Allan Sutton > www.pianotechniquemontreal.com > > > > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090415/8f0ec54d/attachment-0001.html>
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