<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007>Greetings all --</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007>I have inherited a small school district as a customer. Three elementary, two middle and one senior high. 14 pianos in all. All of them on the verge of dying outright. Some as old as 1902. Anyway, my hat is off to the previous tuner, (now deceased), who serviced these pianos for apparently decades. He did an amazing job of just keeping them together and every year making them last just one year longer. Not the prettiest work, but functionally and successfully counteracting the destructive powers of age and school kids. And the schools got to keep the pianos for another year. Anyway, I notice on every single piano, he had painted the tips of the tuning pins white on all notes C, E and G. My first thought was that perhaps he was partially sighted and this helped him navigate the pins. But he very neatly penciled in each of his tunings somewhere on the piano. (A lot of entries on some of these pianos.) So, um. Why do you think he only labeled C, E and G? </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007>This is not a puzzle as I don't know the answer. I'm just curious.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007>-- Geoff Sykes</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953492400-15082007>-- Los Angeles</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>