<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Jerry,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, IL</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ArbeauPiano@comcast.net href="mailto:ArbeauPiano@comcast.net">Arbeau Piano</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:10 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 05, 2007 6:45 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor?</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.'</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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"?!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerry Arbeau</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>