<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The last time I tuned a Victor piano = was on the morning of the day my mother died, so that piano has bad memories for = me.  I knew she was very ill and I had decided to get this last tuning in = before going up to the hospital to see her.  What was intended to be an = hour or so ended up being two or so (seemed like six).  I swear that piano was = the most difficult (new) instrument I have ever tuned in my life.  The = tuning pins were so tight, it was almost as they were designed to be = permanently fixed into the pinblock.  I went away from that job feeling absolutely whacked!  This story is absolutely true.  I guess the little = beast is due for another tuning (of <EM>course</EM> it will be - it's been over = two years!).  Somehow the customer card did not find its way back into = the reminder file, in fact it seems to have genuinely gone missing = altogether.  That's a shame.  Legend has it, that the piano was named = "Victor" because it was designed to get the better of technicians.  It = darned near succeeded.   Brian Holden, upside down in New Zealand.  </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>