<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 10, 2008 2:57 PM, David Boyce <<a href="mailto:David@piano.plus.com">David@piano.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Years ago I was called to the country manor home of Lady D, elderly widow of<br>a shipping magnate.  After the tuning the housekeeper took me into the<br> parlour to meet her ladyship, who was very charming and quite "with it".<br><br>The following year I was called again, but by that time Lady D had developed<br>Alzheimers, and she commented to the housekeeper (who relayed it to me)<br> "That's not a nice tune the man's playing".  She was too far gone to meet me<br>that time, and some months later she passed away and the house was sold.<br><br>Sic transit gloria mundi......<br><br>Best regards,<br> <font color="#888888"><br>David.<br><br><br></font></blockquote></div> <div> </div> <div>Years ago I was floor tuning in a music store, the piano show room was a seperate room from the rest of the store connected by a doorway in front and the service area in back. As I was tuning I heard someone whistling the note I was tuning, almost the note I was tuning, just a little flat, I finished that one and moved to the next and he moved up with me again a shade off. He was far enough away that it didn't throw me off it was just quite noticable to me. This continued for about 20 minutes before he left, I asked the owner after he left if he had noticed the difference, no he hadn't and he was surprised that I had!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>