<HTML>Hello tuners,= tooners, and tunas, I don't know about the resta y'all, but I'm beginning to get a distaste = for tuning pianos for violinists.  A couple of recent jobs have kind of= soured me to the process of trying to get piano tuning to fit into a string= player's idea of perfection....:-( Job number 1:  Last job before my vacation in early July.  New= Kawai k-25 upright, nice little piano.  Never tuned in store, 15-20 ce= nts #, sitting next to a window in an area where the fog blows over the hill= from the Pacific Ocean.  Purchased for little girl.  Dad, now a g= olfer in his spare time, grew up playing violin.  Inflated sense of aur= al ability.  I told him that the piano would go out of tune quickly bec= ause it's new, and because of where it's sitting.  He seemed to underst= and, at least until I got the phone call where he complained about certain i= ntervals sounding "off."  I explained that blah, blah, weather, blah bl= ah, new pianos need frequent tuning, blah blah, break in period, blah blah. =  He still wants me to come check the tuning.  No doubt that I'll f= ind it in pretty nasty shape... Job # 2:  Nice G-2 Yamaha(5'7" grand), about 7-8 years old.  N= ot in horrible tune when I arrived, though it had gone 3 cents or so flat ov= erall, with a few real zingers in the upper end.  The family was cookin= g in the kitchen, maybe 12 feet from the piano, and whatever they were makin= g was putting huge amounts of H20 in the atmosphere.  After I was done = tuning, my hygrometer registered 70 percent humidity in the house. Anyway, he didn't seem unhappy with my work, but I definitely felt on th= e spot.  He did fess up to being extremely picky, though he lightened u= p a bit when I removed the action(never been done before to that piano!) and= explained a bit about regulation and voicing(desperately needed to even out= the tone).  He said he'd play the piano for awhile and decide how he l= iked the tuning. That's my whine for the week.  Some weeks are just nice to escape f= rom with a shred of dignity. Thanks for reading, Dave Stahl</HTML>