a little knowledge...

[Richard Brekne]

I see  the point you are making very clearly Dave. Its worse when Daddy is some
really excellent pianist with lots of decorations for bravery and different
campaigns and all that... and even has spent a few hours in a factory.

Worst fellow I ever ran into was such a man. Professor at a university,
extremely talented. We had several head banger arguments and did not get on well
at all. I asked him once why it is he thinks it takes 20 years to make a pianist
and 15 minutes to make a piano tuner.

This guy knew just enough about what makes a piano tick to get himself in deep
trouble without knowing it, yet not enough to get himself out.  Coupled with an
ego the size of one of Saturns moons, he spelt the worst kind of problem for a
pianotech.

RicB

David Ilvedson wrote:

> List,
>
> This morning I tuned two pianos for a classical concert this evening at a
> fancy hotel.  Got there at 9:15 am and found the brand new Boston at -7
> cents...pitch raised and tuned and then proceeded to the grey market Yamaha
> C3.  At 11 am one of the pianists...very young...with parents in tow came in
> and sat down at the back of Salon I & II.  Daddy came up and checked out the
> name of the Boston.  Soon Mom came up and said there must be a communication
> problem as she was told they could come at 11 am and try out the pianos and
> they had an appointment to get to...I told them I hadn't received this info
> and I would be done as quickly as I could, about, 11:30 am
> approximately...so I proceeded and finished with them talking in the
> back...They came up and moved the pianos as I packed up and Daddy said "is
> that a Kawai?".  (I knew he had looked at the name and I said "Yes,
> basically".  Then he said   "Hey, have you heard what Yamaha is doing with
> their keybeds?"...with the same tone as asking a buddy about the football
> team...I responded that I wasn't sure... "Yeah, there putting foam in
> there."  "I saw a demonstration with a Baldwin and they drilled a hole in
> the keybed"...I told him I would check into it.  He also said he could tell
> I knew what I was doing as a lot of tuners didn't pound...(I don't pound, so
> those other tuners must really me light fingered.)...;-]
>
> Anyway...a fun way to start the day.  So List what's this about foam in the
> keybeds of Yamahas?
>
> David I.




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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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