Veering off topic of "perfect pitch" a bit, but Paul's comments reminded me of being asked by a customer (a fine pianist) to tune the piano in a children's pre-school place where she worked. She had to rush off to another appointment for twenty minutes and left me there to check it out/tune it. I found that it was too old and done to be worth even attempting to tune, so I finished the coffee she'd told me to make, and awaited her return. She immediately sat at the piano, played it a bit and said "Oh! WHAT an improvement!". David. >Same thing with me, although not a tuning thing. Ann Shine (Shein?) was here for a guest artist recital. We listened to the piano....she was not pleased! I moved the piano about three inches at >the front of the piano toward the seats and she says, "yes, that really sounds better now". Go figgur. the stage manager and I just smiled and told her, "it probably has caught the best acoustics of >the room!" She agreed...and the show went on! <G> >I've had other weird things come from picky players as well, including the below blog, or just pretending to move something, taking the action out and moving a couple of jacks or rep springs, or what >have you, and they say.."Oh, it DOES sound better now! How you did that is amazing!!!" Again a grin >Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090321/c3520c37/attachment.html>
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