This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Sometimes I'll play the piano after a tuning, especially if it's a nice grand, to see how the piano sounds and plays (voicing issues? regulation issues?) and to "sell" the tuning, or in some cases to make up for the protracted One-note Samba. But I think it's good to be aware of whether there is a *player* at home. One time I tarried for some reason and discovered that the owner wanted his daughter to play on their very nicely rebuilt Steinway L. She sat down and played a Bach Sarabande that had me in tears. That this unassuming 18-year-old could play with such maturity and grace, I was just astounded. What a great treat for my ears (and heart) and I'm so glad that I didn't play a note. Tom Cole FRANCES HELMS wrote: >I have found that young children are sometimes delighted to play after I tune. Not the best way to check or show off a tuning, but they enjoy it. They're usually more likely to do so if I ask them before, not after I play. >Their parents enjoy the opportunity to show the kids talents. >Fran Helms, >Piano Technician, >Topeka, KS > > > >>>><Tvak@aol.com> 8/30/2005 4:59 PM >>> >>>> >>>> > >In a message dated 8/29/05 2:49:17 PM, jodel@kairos.net writes: > > > > >>not something so showy as to intimidate the client (still want their >>opinion, right?). What do you think? >> >> >> > >I can't not intimidate them. Even playing simple pieces, technique shows >through with phrasing, voicing, dynamics, etc. No one has ever sat down and >played the piano after I test it. Ever. They all refuse. > >Whaddayagonnado? > >I don't play showy, arpeggio-ey things, either. Mozart Sonata in G, 2nd >movement; Chopin Etude in Eb Major; Chopin Waltz in C# minor; and the intro to >"Falling" from "THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG", by Marvin Hamlisch (I play it >chromatically up from the original key of D to F, testing the top octaves/unisons). > >Other than showing the client how good their piano can sound, I'm primarily >listening to unisons. Unisons are the only interval the consumer/pianist can >detect when it's out. Between those first three pieces, I can hear >melodically, every note between middle C and A5. > >Tom Sivak >Chicago > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ef/cd/d8/e2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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