A funny thing happen on the way to the treble . . .

[Richard Brekne]

Kristinn Leifsson wrote:

> You know, something very similar happened to me a few days ago.  I was
> tuning for a jazz gig in a café.  ....snipsnip

>
> The waitress comes to me and asks me whether I could WAIT WHILE THEY´RE
> EATING!

Amazing stuff... I think many of us have run into that one at sometime.. Nice
reply is that you charge by the hour and its double time and a half for
unappointed delays.. grin.

>
> Those were her last words!  You can´t speak with a soundboard steel through
> your larynx!

Course as ignorant as that all sounds I suppose we all can be pretty dumb...er..
from time to time..

>
>
> Die piggy piggy, die die!
>
> Kristinn
>
> At 19:48 18.8.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Tuning the grand wasn't hard enough with all the waite staff enroute
> >by the piano on their setup chores. It wasn't so bad either when they
> >had to shout above the tuning to carry on their conversation from across
> >the room. And when the vacuum started up, fortunately it was mostly on
> >the other side of the room. But when one waitress with a high pitched
> >voice started whining about her boyfriend I thought it couldn't get any
> >worse until she started throwing silverware into the drawer.
> >
> >At that point I had to stop and reflect, have a little chuckle; and then
> >proceed to work as fast as I could.
> >
> >Hazard pay,
> >
> >Jon Page
> >
> >PS I forgot to mention the waiter who intermittently whistled the note I was
> >attempting to tune.  I would have liked to thrown some of that silverware
> >at him.  :-)
> >

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway