I'm going to miss all this business next month. I'm having so much fun. And due to tuning so many pianos in the past month and a half (about 10 a week!) my speed has improved: I did several one hour tunings this month. A good piano with no pitch raise can take me one hour or less. Unfortunately, those Lesters and Gulbransens still take me an hour and a half, and my client list is packed with those little gems. I guess I shouldn't say complain about Lester pianos---I did two complete elbow replacements this month, both on Lester pianos, which paid for quite a few Christmas presents! Curiously, both Lesters had Dampp-Chaser dehumidifier bars installed, but no humidifier. I specifically warned/asked both owners, "You don't plug this in, do you?" and they said that they didn't, but certainly it must have been used at some point, maybe by a previous owner. (Indeed one of the pianos used to be in Florida.) I know that elbows of this vintage are breaking on pianos all over America, but I wonder if the dryness from the dehumdifier can accelerate the process. (Idiot-street-logic, which I specialize in, would dictate that it would.) Tom Sivak
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