>Why is it that while tuning a piano ,all is calm & quite untill you start >tuning the treble section? Then vaccums start ,dishes are being washed, >dogs start to howl, washers & dryers are started & kids start scrapping. >Its hard enough to hear in this section when its quite. Does anyone else >have this problem, or am I the only lucky one this happens to. >I don't want to get real fussy with my customers & lose their business.I >would appreciate any ideas that some of you out there have& how do you >handle these kind of situations. This could be a good example of Chaos Theory. Like the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil setting off a tornado in Texas, the mere act of moving into the undamped section of a piano in the course of tuning can set off any number of actions. The neighbor next door decides NOW is a good time to cut the grass. Nearby construction workers begin cutting many lengths of wood with a power saw. The kid down the block decides to see if his new bass-kicker car stereo can shatter any nearby windows. Most of the time this phenomenon puts a smile on my face because it seems to happen so frequently. Todays occurrence at a church was not so bad. I was pondering why the treble sounded so odd when I realized that someone picked that moment to turn on the ceiling fans. This was not such a difficult situation to rectify. Mike Musial RPT Reedsville Pa
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