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<DIV>Hi Dave - Reading your post about self-tuners, I recalled one =
instance from
my early days - an older lady with a spinet or console which she called =
me to
tune. As soon as I played one chord and saw the condition of the =
tuning
pins, I knew somebody had been at them with pliers. But she =
was ready
for my question with an award winning performance "who do you =
suppose
could have done such a thing?" "someone must have broken in, but why =
would they
do this to me?" - yeah, sure, they did. The piano actually tuned =
rather
well, considering, and I never heard from her again.</DIV>
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<DIV>Today I have several pianists who have tuning levers for touching =
up new
strings and I don't discourage it but if they only call me every 5-6 =
years or so
for a solid tuning as one did recently, I don't return the call. I =
do have
one very nice amateur musician who often pretunes (quite =
decently) his
old Steinway M, getting it up and into the ballpark for a =
decent
tuning - it doesn't hold well, needs repinning, actually complete =
rebuilding, so
this works out well saving me an extra hour of hard labor, and he's not =
doing it
because he's cheap; he has even apologized when he's been too busy to =
prepare it
for me!</DIV>
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<DIV>Bruce</DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Piannaman@aol.com
href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</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> Friday, June 27, 2003 =
12:18
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Maybe they should all =
try to
tune their own pianos....</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>Hi all, =
<BR><BR>I sent
a post a couple of weeks ago about going out to tune a piano for a =
gentleman
who had attempted to tune his own instrument. He was actually a =
very
nice guy, and played the piano quite well, and because he had a pretty =
muusical ear, he thought it would be a piece o' cake. <BR><BR>I got a =
call
back from him yesterday telling me what a great job I did, and how "in =
tune"
the piano sounds. That kind of phone call is always nice to get. =
But it got me to thinking...was it because he had attempted to =
achieve a
good tuning on his own that he appreciated the work of a professional =
tuner?
<BR><BR>Maybe some of our less appreciative customers should be =
given a
tuning hammer and allowed to try their luck. Anybody else ever =
have this
experience? <BR><BR>Dave Stahl</FONT> =
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