piano tuners are 126

[Newton Hunt]

Don't work that way, Wim.  Ask any of the guys on caut@ptg.org about
recital time at a university.  WHOLE different ball game.  The whole
department goes ballistic and carries you right along.  

Try tuning a concert piano with the outside doors open and a cold wet
breeze coming across the piano, the stage hands doing a load in, the
ligh crew are yelling to each other about how to set the lights and
the sound guys trying to set up the sound system and you have 45
minutes to tune somone elses piano.  

Now THAT is stress.

Have a stressless weekend.

	Newto

Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/19/99 6:46:29 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
> nhunt@jagat.com
> writes:
> 
> << Wim, you obviously have not worked at a university at recital
> time or
>  have wroked on the concert stage.  Two quite stressful places.
> 
>                 Newton >>
> 
> Any profession, no matter how "unstressful," can have a moment or
> two when a
> deadline has to be met.  I see meeting a deadline, and having a
> stress free
> job, as two different things.  A lot depends on how you deal with a
> deadline.
> I think of stress as it relates to the pressures associates with the
> job over
> which a person has no control. Even in a recital situation, the
> piano tuner
> has some control, in that he can always tell the performer, and even
> the
> audience, that the show won't go on until the piano is ready. Not
> that you
> want to do that, but it can happen. Just my 2  cents worth.
> 
> Wim