redhead and the Yamaha

[Avery Todd]

Go, Ed!!!!!!!  :-)

Avery

>Ok,
>I wrote:
>>> Mistakes can be made and triumphs be savored.  I had one this morning,
>>> involving a redhead and a Yamaha,..
>
>      The redhead is a country music singer, and I was tuning the piano for a
>songwriter that had a writing date with her later today.  He also had a case
>of writer's block, which I didn't know about.   I proposed that I make a
>slight change in his temperament, and use a Victorian style tuning on the
>piano,(hey, it's a nice day, why not?).  He went for it.  As I was going
>through, I played a big G chord in the middle of the piano, and he came in and
>said,  "That's me, right there!,  I don't know what you are doing, but that is
>what I've been looking for".
>    When finished, he took off on it.  He was incredulous at how  the sounds
>that he had been imagining were all of a sudden, right there!  He is sold and
>told me to leave the top up,  he was going to spend the rest of the morning
>playing, since he had never heard his Yamaha sound so good.
>   Oh,  the redhead?   She will be cutting her next album shortly, and if we
>get a 19th century tuning on a country hit,  this list will be the first to
>know.
>Regards,
>Ed Foote
>