Once I tuned for a rental agency. One of the fellows called up and asked if I had a D tuning fork. "No", I said, "What the heck do you need a D fork for?" -"This guy wants to know if you can tune to D." "I don't understand, I tune to the A fork, that's what everyone tunes to these days, although there is a C fork, but I have never heard of using a D fork" "Well, he asked me if our tuner could de-tune a piano." "Oh you mean he wants an out of tune piano" I then heard laughter in the back ground, and realized that the speaker phone was on, and I had been set up once again. So if someone ever wants you to D-tune a piano ask them they want it to be flat or to be sharp. Richard Gotpaidtobebad ps The agency actually did have a customer that wanted to rent an out of tune piano. For a coffee comercial I heard. I dropped one string in a few unisons, they called the client and he listened to it over the phone and said that was exactly what he wanted, and was glad it would cost no more than a regular tuning and understood they should pay for the retune also. I tweeked the rest of the unisons and got paid for a full tuning in 10 minutes.
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