Who did you direct this message to? I'll answer anyway! Comments interspersed below: ----- Original Message ----- From: <Yardarm103669107@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Last Hurrah?/ broken strings > I'm up for it. No racing though. I spent ten years racing, and I'm done with > it. Cruising only. Amen. I never did race, but I never wanted to! > What body of water are you on? Tampa Bay/Gulf of Mexico, about 250 miles N of Key West - for the last 11 years. > I'm on Lake Michigan out of > Chicago. Prior to that, Lake St. Clair outside of Detroit. Used to sail up through the North Channel of Lake Huron most summers. I miss it. > The boat is a 25 year old French built racer/cruiser 28' with a deep > water keel. You can always tell the French boats: they have built-in wine > racks. Who's sailing on what over there? Folkboat. Built in Sweden in 1963. Mahogany on oak. Beautiful sailer. > Actually, to keep the topic to pianos, it's no joke that you have to tune a > boat. Also, think about the shape of a sail such as the main, and the points > at which it is held, and the most desirable shapes for it in a wind; does it > remind you of a soundboard? Battens (ribs) and all? On December 16, 1997 (Beethovan's Birthday) I got my first idea to explore going into the piano technician profession. The piano tuner had just tuned our new piano that afternoon and I was looking for a change in jobs. I had rebuilt several wooden sailboats over the years. That night it occurred to me: "Hey, you know, pianos are a lot like sailboats......made of wood and metal.......beautiful mahogany finishes......many are very old.......they hang around for a long time........designs have not changed radically for many decades.......they need to be tuned.......they don't just sit there like a table - they are used - they are alive........AND (perhaps the most important) the insides (think about an old upright) kinda smell like the great bilge smell of an old wooden sailboat! So if I had not had many years of pleasure working on wooden sailboats, I would likely never have gotten into this profession! Only bad thing is now I am so busy with pianos, my sailboat sits in my backyard badly in need of some rib replacements, a new cockpit, etc. No time to do it!!! > Paul Revenko-Jones Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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