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At 03:36 PM 11/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>As a rank rookie,
some years ago, I was privy to all kinds of horror stories told by the
pros about their most nightmarish tuning experience. I purposed to get
ahead of the game. So, I would practice "tuning" at home with
the saturday afternoon Texaco broadcast of the Met going full-blast. It
really did help. </font><br>
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<font face="arial">Sometimes, one can affect the environment. But,
sometimes one cannot. As when doing a performance tuning for a stage band
with the band warming up around you and a freight train of empty coal
cars clattering away not fifty feet away. All outside. That was
interesting. Sheer concentration and an Accutuner got me through it.
Likewise with the time that the customer, in his home, was right around
the corner running a chain saw. Or, in a school cafeteria at lunch hour
(kindergarten age kids). </font><br>
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<font face="arial">But, like many of the rest of you, a normal
converstion going on in the same room can be deadly. Especially when in
the fifth or sixty octaves and the voices are female. </font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial">Tom Cobble, RPT, now in Florida, loves to tell the
story of the rabbit, sitting on the grass median strip of a very busy
highway who ignores all of the hustle and bustle around him. But, picks
up his ears immediately to a light scratching sound in the grass.
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<font face="arial">It is amazing what we can learn to filter out, given
good motivation.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial">Robin Blankenship</font></blockquote><br>
I was tuning in a large function room and the air conditioning system was
making this low rumbling,<br>
sub harmonic kind of noise. Impossible to avoid.<br>
<br>
It wasn't until someone brought in an industrial strength vacuum cleaner
and fired that up<br>
was I able to have something to ignore and tune the piano.<br>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<br>
<div>Jon Page, piano technician</div>
<div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div>
<div><a href="mailto:jonpage@attbi.com" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com</a></div>
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