>> >>One comment that I get fairly frequently that really rubs me the wrong way is >>(and there are equally obnoxious variations), "How can you stand to do that >>tuning? It really sounds loud and boring!" To me the comment is a not so >>polite way of calling me a klutz. Oh well, W. Braid White never promised us a >>rose garden. >> My all-time personal favorite comment while tuning: "My son/daughter has perfect pitch and can always tell when the piano is out of tune." This usually occurs right after I've begun a pitch change on one of those small "horizontal spinet" baby grand pianos (5'0"or less) which hasn't been tuned since Lincoln was shot. I try to stifle the urge to say "He/she has perfect pitch? I'm so sorry!" or "Here's a quarter; call someone who cares!" Cheers, Tom Seay The Unversity of Texas at Austin t.seay@mail.utexas.edu "Don't worry about your music too much - whatever you write will end up being played on an old upright in a bar anyway!" - Marvin Hamlish
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