<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 9:24 AM, Alan Barnard <<a href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">pianotuner@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div>Disney's classic song, "Some Day My Pianotuner Will Come"<br><br><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4362311798892212010&q=piano&total=300814&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4362311798892212010&q=piano&total=300814&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9</a><br> <br>Biggest mystery in the piano business: How can so many talented people--who've spent years and years practicing the piano--have such lousy ears? Especially some music and piano teachers I have met, and a couple of conservatory-trained classicists.  <br> <br>Alan Barnard<br>Salem, MO<br></div> </blockquote></div><br>Merciful heavens!<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I don't know what it is, either.  Music teachers are sometimes the worst.  I have one teacher client who is a year overdue on her tunings.   She has a Steinway B, Yamaha P22, and a Story&Clark piece of furniture.  She is talented, and she can appreciate an in-tune piano.  But I can't figure out why she doesn't have her pianos tuned every six months.  They always sounds awful when I get there.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Maybe it's because I'm in the piano tuning business.  But I just can't stand playing a piano that is much out of tune.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>JF<br></div>