Tuning Test Intervals -Reply

[Les Smith]

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Richard Adkins wrote:

>
>
> >>> Allen Leigh
> <allen@pengar.com> 03/13/96
> 09:30am >>>
> > But can anyone tell me what the
> "Gilligan's Island Theme" test intervals
> > consist of?  Thanks!
>
>   Its when a storm of broken strings
> casts your treble adrift, causing the
> middle to sink...and the friendly
> skipper....comes up to you while you're
> tuning and proceeds to look over
> your shoulder and talk and make
> comments about the weather while
> you try your best to save yourself....
> as his ditsy wife proceeds to vacuum
> and turn on the dishwasher while
> frying bacon as you enter the
> treble section comming up the
> fourth time for air trying your
> darndest to hear those secret
> overtone tests they talked about
> at that tuning seminar you attended
> back before you started this voyage....
>
And when you finally overcome all those obstacles and are finishing up
and it looks like the voyage is coming to an end, the Skipper comes over
to you and says, "Little buddy, are you going to laugh when I tell you
this one!  I can't find my checkbook anywhere, I guess I must have left
it at the office. Why don't you just leave a bill with me and we'll mail
you out a check tomorrow?"!

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net

BTW, how would YOU handle the above situation? I know one very good tuner,
who, when he finished tuning a grand piano for a new client, was informed
that she didn't intend to pay him right wawy. It seems she was concerned
about how well the tuning would "hold up", because the last time a  different
tuners had worked on it, it went out of tune again very quickly. She told
"Bill" that she would wait "awhile", to see how the tuning held up and THEN
she would mail him his check. Bill didn't take this news very well. In the
blink of an eye he removed the piano's music desk, whipped out his tuning
hammer, and started dropping random strings an octave or so. Within a
minute , or less, the instrument was totally unplayable. Ever the gentle-
man, Bill politely told the lady what she could do with her check and storm-
ed out. I'll bet the lady never tried THAT strategy again!

Les Smith