[CAUT] why does it feel better?

[David Ilvedson]

Ooo...what a great idea...thanks

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 8/29/2006 12:33:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?


>Hey Conrad,

>For some faculty the only way they know if their piano has been tuned is
>because the junk has been moved off it... so now between tunings I just
>move things around and I effectively double my tunings. <G>

>JB

>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
>Conrad Hoffsommer
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:24 PM
>To: College and University Technicians
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?

>At 01:18 PM 8/29/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>the piano is one of those things which can really work on the
>imagination 
>>and spriit of the person playing it.

>>Robin Blankenship


>One must not ever forget the "placebo effect" either...

>Last week, a piano prof had mentioned some repetition issues with the 
>hamburger D. A couple days later I got a phone mail message thanking me
>for 
>the work I'd done on the instrument.

>I hadn't gotten to it yet (still haven't, actually)...

>Since he _thought_ (assumed?) I'd worked on it, it played better. ;-}




>Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
>1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076

>- Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score,
>- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.