<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>need some opinions</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<STYLE type=text/css>BLOCKQUOTE {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
DL {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
UL {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
OL {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
LI {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
</STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We certainly are in an interesting business. After
51 years a tuner, I never cease to be enthralled at the fact that we all have
our own way of tuning, and indeed, our own degree of satisfaction with our
tuning ability.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This talk about different tuners and their opinion
of what is a good tuning and a not so good one, brings us to realise that this
certainly is an 'imperfect' industry we are in. How many times have you gone to
a piano that has just been attended to by another tuner, tested the scale, and
then gone through the entire compass of the keyboard, and found 'fault'? We all
do it. However, because we work on an 'imperfect instrument' then we too are in
that category are we not?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have often been in awe of other tuner's work, and
even though I would consider it excellent, I would have changed this or that.
How dare I do that. Perhaps this akin to taking a paint brush and altering a
painting by an artist.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My feelings are these: If, when I leave a piano
after a tuning, and I still get goose bumps from the result, I am a happy man.
We are so lucky to have chosen the work we do, even if sometimes the piano we
are working on is less than responsive, we can still make something beautiful
out of something ugly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers, David Lawson OZ.</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jonpage@comcast.net href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">Jon Page</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> Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:18
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> need some opinions</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>... informed
the pianist that I could not share such tunings with
another</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>tuner because
it would ultimately affect the piano...</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I tell customers that it is better to have one tuner. Different tuners
tune differently</DIV>
<DIV>in regards to pin setting and stretch. I find that it takes two tunings
to get the piano</DIV>
<DIV>'back' to my style.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I used to get a call from one lady every few years. I seemed that she
liked to</DIV>
<DIV>'spread the wealth' and give every tuner in the area a turn. The piano
was always</DIV>
<DIV>dreadful but after a few of my sessions she realized that my tunings
lasted longer</DIV>
<DIV>and had me tune consecutively for a few years, then she moved.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I had the situation again recently and told the owner to pick a tuner, if
she insisted</DIV>
<DIV>on multiple tuners, count me out. Not just for tuning stability but for
service</DIV>
<DIV>and maintenance.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>