tuning environment

[Alan Barnard]

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Stick around awhile and you'll experience some tuning environments that'll make noisy nursing homes seem like a nap on the beach.

Lawn mowers, vacuums, screeching 2-year-olds, clocks!!!, loud air conditioners and furnaces, televisions, and (at Fort Leonard Wood) the not-so-distant sound of small arms, tank shells, and the engineers blowing up stuff ... kabooM! ... the fun just keeps on coming.

One that was a challenge: Junior high school tuning Hamilton on stage in gym/auditorium with concrete floor and cinder block walls, boys basketball team shows up and they each grab a ball and start bouncing, shooting, shouting, laughing and the SHOES ... sqeak squirk eek scree. I couldn't complain because I'd gotten held up and was an hour late when I started.

And the number one most obnoxious sound? Someone else tuning another piano in the background. 

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


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Sent: 02/03/2006 6:37:02 PM 
Subject: tuning environment



Hi Everyone,
I know it's not a technical question per sae, but I like hearing about other technician's experiences.  What has been yoru worst tuning environment?  Today I tuned a piano at a nursing home, an Acrosonic.  The people were great, but it always throws me off when someone comesup and asks me a question such as, "Have you found that lost chord yet." I was making sure my thirds matched up evenly.  It was great, and I scheduled them for their next tuning already plus one of the employees there scheduled me to tune her piano in two weeks.  It was a great experience, but it's hard to tune with lots of background activity.  What do you guys do in that situation, besides make the best of it.?:)  
Marshall
ps. It was a great tuning all around however, plus they offered me lunch!  Awesome chili and corn bread.  
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From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> 

> At 03:57 PM 2/3/2006 -0800, Horace wrote: 
> >Actually that has been done a number of times. When I was more active in 
> >institutional work, I used to do it for demonstration purposes...it does 
> >get folks' attention. 
> 
> I'm sure it does! 
> 
> >Also, I know specifically of one major contemporary venue in which this 
> >was done to the primary concert instrument...no, the technician who did it 
> >is no longer employed there. 
> 
> Ready for a different sort of institution, I would guess ... well, there is 
> more than one way to tell an employer to "take this job and shove it." 
> 
> sssssssssnn 
> 
> 
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