[pianotech] Tuning with distractions

[Gerald Groot]

I was tuning in a retirement home in the fruit cake section one time with
the room full of people.  Tuning drives them battier than they were before I
arrived....  What makes that?  :)  One of them wanted to kill me.  Well,
actually, they all did.  Another wanted to throw me out the F-ing window.
Another wanted to call 911.  Another wanted to call the fire department so
they could chop my head off with an axe, anything to get me to stop tuning.
One lady starting cussing up a storm after she told me to shut the F-up, get
my my F-ing shotgun about 3 times.  Once again, I lost it, got up, walked
over to the nurses station with tears running down my face from laughing and
said, how do you people manage to keep a straight face around here?  We get
used to it but, believe me, we laugh a lot too, was her response.  

>From that point on though, I made it a point to try and have the room
cleared for their sanity and mine.  Although, I do miss the entertainment
value.

Jer



-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Pritchard
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:07 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning with distractions

I once tuned at a veterans home in their big activity room, and one of the
older (probably senile) residents would sing whatever note I was tuning as
loud as he could.  "Laaaaaaaaaaa!"  My mood was somewhere between irritated
and uncontrollable laughter.

David Pritchard
Scottsbluff, NE=