<HTML>In a message dated 1/13/03 10:21:03 AM Central Standard Time, bigda@gte.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">She said, "Well, you've killed the middle of the piano...."  and I saw all the trust and good will leave her body, and leave the situation.  She then made continual over-the-top, apocryphal statements about the piano being dead, the hammers being "gone," the "quality" being "gone out of the piano." </BLOCKQUOTE> I haven't been tuning for artists all that long, but I do remember either reading on this list, or maybe it was something my director once told me (he's a concert artist), that the better the artist, the less they will complain about the piano. The artists that complain the most don't know what they want, and will blame the piano for their own inequities. Glad to know you're feeling better. Wim </HTML>