life of a piano tuner

[Clyde Hollinger]

Now I'm curious.  How many pianos did you tune on a yearly basis?  If the
400 places you mention had only one piano that was tuned annually, that
already sounds to me like six months' work.

Regards, Clyde


> 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