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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Everyone,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I know it's not a technical question per sae, but I like hearing about other technician's experiences. What has been yoru worst tuning environment? Today I tuned a piano at a nursing home, an Acrosonic. The people were great, but it always throws me off when someone comesup and asks me a question such as, "Have you found that lost chord yet." I was making sure my thirds matched up evenly. It was great, and I scheduled them for their next tuning already plus one of the employees there scheduled me to tune her piano in two weeks. It was a great experience, but it's hard to tune with lots of background activity. What do you guys do in that situation, besides make the best of it.?:) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ps. It was a great tuning all around however, plus they offered me lunch! Awesome chili and corn bread. </FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> <BR><BR>> At 03:57 PM 2/3/2006 -0800, Horace wrote: <BR>> >Actually that has been done a number of times. When I was more active in <BR>> >institutional work, I used to do it for demonstration purposes...it does <BR>> >get folks' attention. <BR>> <BR>> I'm sure it does! <BR>> <BR>> >Also, I know specifically of one major contemporary venue in which this <BR>> >was done to the primary concert instrument...no, the technician who did it <BR>> >is no longer employed there. <BR>> <BR>> Ready for a different sort of institution, I would guess ... well, there is <BR>> more than one way to tell an employer to "take this job and shove it." <BR>> <BR>> sssssssssnn <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>