[pianotech] Tuning with distractions

[Terry Farrell]

Yikes! I guess I was lucky with just my one curser. Well, actually, I  
have one more story to tell about tuning in an old folks home, but I  
think the list administrators would slap my patties if I described  
exactly what happened. Let's  just say that no one touched or hurt me,  
but I sure could have gotten through the day without the old guy  
walking up to me and doing what he did.....  :-(

Terry Farrell

On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Gerald Groot wrote:

> I was tuning in a retirement home in the fruit cake section one time  
> with
> the room full of people.  Tuning drives them battier than they were  
> before I
> arrived....  What makes that?  :)  One of them wanted to kill me.   
> Well,
> actually, they all did.  Another wanted to throw me out the F-ing  
> window.
> Another wanted to call 911.  Another wanted to call the fire  
> department so
> they could chop my head off with an axe, anything to get me to stop  
> tuning.
> One lady starting cussing up a storm after she told me to shut the F- 
> up, get
> my my F-ing shotgun about 3 times.  Once again, I lost it, got up,  
> walked
> over to the nurses station with tears running down my face from  
> laughing and
> said, how do you people manage to keep a straight face around here?   
> We get
> used to it but, believe me, we laugh a lot too, was her response.
>
>> From that point on though, I made it a point to try and have the room
> cleared for their sanity and mine.  Although, I do miss the  
> entertainment
> value.
>
> Jer
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]  
> On Behalf
> Of David Pritchard
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:07 AM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning with distractions
>
> I once tuned at a veterans home in their big activity room, and one  
> of the
> older (probably senile) residents would sing whatever note I was  
> tuning as
> loud as he could.  "Laaaaaaaaaaa!"  My mood was somewhere between  
> irritated
> and uncontrollable laughter.
>
> David Pritchard
> Scottsbluff, NE=
>