life of a piano tuner

[antares@euronet.nl]

On zondag, sep 21, 2003, at 10:15 Europe/Amsterdam, Susan Kline wrote:

> At 01:53 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, Bob wrote:
>> I remember a busy tuning day years ago, when the clock chimed twelve. 
>> It seemed to take an hour. I was irritated at the customer for not 
>> noticing and turning it off. Then came an epiphany (in the sense of  
>> "a sudden perception of the essential nature or meaning of something" 
>> from the MW dictionary). If I can't stop long enough to let the clock 
>> strike, what does that say about the nature of my relationship to my 
>> business!! Ever since, every time the clock chimes at a customer's 
>> house, I smile at the memory of the revelation, and take a 
>> well-deserved couple of deep breaths.
>>
>> Bob Davis
>
> I love it ...
> and you're right.
>
> Susan

I remember exactly the same thing... I became extremely agitated with 
all kinds of sounds. At the time (a long time ago) I tuned a zillion 
pianos a year and also the pianos in 400 public schools, hospitals and 
public buildings.
After 10 years of this (I worked for a piano firm who had a contract 
with the city of Amsterdam) I wanted to write a book about my hateful 
noisy tuning experiences.
I also had a title for it :
kinderen, kanaries, en koekoeksklokken  (children, canaries, and coo 
coo clocks).

I quit that job and I never wrote the book.

(; >))

André Oorebeek