Spinets and Hearing Aids

[Alan Barnard]

If you look closely and listen closely to the Daleks, they were saying "We
will plunge, we will plunge." I mean, what good is a robotic arm with a
sewage-shover attached if you aren't going to go into the plumbing trade. 

On a more serious note (C#3—that's a fairly serious note, I think), I'd
like to hear on this topic from some of the tuners who wear hearing aids.

Careful with the political references: Feelings run high even amongst us
calm, rational people call piano tuners, but I value the friendships much
more than the politics.

Alan Barnard
City of Salem (half red, half blue, 1/3 redneck, 1/873 blueblood, but 100
percent true-blue, red, white, and blue), Dent County (red county),
Missouri (red state), United States of America (if our own courts don't
kill the dream) and most all of us on this side of the Great Waters (Native
American lingo, there) feeling blue and seeing red for the poor blighters
in Olde London Towne. God bless the Stalwart, Intrepid, and Indefatigable
Brits and freedom loving people everywhere, "...if it ain't out of keeping
with the current situation. (Dickens)"


> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Gamble <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: Al Pebworth <ralp1938-ptg@yahoo.com>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 07/09/2005 5:12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Spinets and Hearing Aids
>
> Hello Al and List
> I have a client - yesterday, in fact - who was complaining of much the
same 
> thing, only he had the courtesy to tell me that he wanted me to tune the 
> piano so he could then judge whether his new, very expensive £5000
(that's a 
> lot!) Swiss made hearing aids were distorting the sound he was used to. I 
> asked Sir John (for that's his name) why his previous Danish hearing aids 
> didn't exhibit the same problem. He said he's sending the Swiss ones back 
> (warranty issue (S&S? Ha! Ha!) and he's going to approach the Danish
company 
> for a new hearing aid. The piano is a newish small Yamaha upright.
> Why beat about the (GW)Bush? In Dalek-Speak "We shall Exterminate" :-)
> Michael G.(UK)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Pebworth" <ralp1938-ptg@yahoo.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:42 PM
> Subject: Spinets and Hearing Aids
>
>
> > Could anyone share their experience with small
> > spinets owned by Senior Citizens wearing hearing aids?
> >
> >
> > My customer hears "Buzzes", "Twangs", "Noise"
> > from a 1960's vintage Wurlitzer Spinet.
> >
> > She wears twin hearing aids, turned up loud.
> >
> > I have even carried my wife AND a fellow piano tech to
> > the house, and they, along with me, cannot hear these
> > noises.
> >
> > Any obvious solutions, other than just telling her to
> > turn them down?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Al
> >
> > Al Pebworth
> > Chesapeake, Va
> > 
>
>
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