A friend and fellow tech who was one of those retired band teachers, told me that after leaving teaching, it took him three or four years before he could stand to even listen to music on the radio...maybe we were missing a bet by sending captured terrorists to Egypt... ;-) Kerry Kean www.ohiopianotuner.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman [mailto:rnossaman at cox.net] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:29 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] hardening hammers on a Chinese PSO Joseph Garrett wrote: > Ron asked: "Why does everything have to be painfully loud now to be > acceptable?"\ > > Ron, > Because the population is well on the way to being totally DEAF! > Especially, Music Teachers! Have you ever been in a band/choir room at > your local H.S. when they're "hard at it"??? I suspect the teacher has a > hearing impairment from years of teaching the little darlings.<G> Real > glad I didn't go that route back then!! If you can't get "musical", go for pain. Seems a shame that so few apparently appreciate the difference. As to band/choir teachers, I used to wonder why so many piano tuners were retired band teachers, and then it struck me. After all those years, they were so desperate to hear something - anything, in tune... Ron N
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