<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why are you so slow with the = Harpsichord tunings?  I hear Bach did his in about fifteen = minutes...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(wink)   </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 10, = 2003 9:58 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Corte rising to = Standard Pitch!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hello Corte<BR>Did you say you were slow? Two hours to = tune? Well, believe me you'll get<BR>faster than Horowicz in no time! I used = to make appointments on a two-hour<BR>basis like you - but when I got to doing = 8 - 10 pianos a day there just<BR>wasn't enough hours in the day. By then I'd = cut down to 50mins and allow<BR>10mins to get to the next one. Now I'm semi-retired and am just about to go<BR>and tune two Harpsichords in = 25minutes flat. FLAT? Did I say FLAT? Well, I<BR>mean, of course, at A = 440.5 = Hz........z...z..z.z.zzzz<BR>Regards<BR>Michael G = (UK)<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pianot= ech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>