[pianotech] Tuning with distractions

[Gerald Groot]

Doesn't it sort of make you just want to pound the notes really really
REALLY fast??  hehe.  

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Terry Farrell
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:28 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning with distractions

I got cursed quite sternly one time tuning in an old-folks home. After  
banging away on the piano for a while, some lady in the back of the  
room starts yelling at me - "stop playing that piano - you can't play  
that thing worth a cr--!"

Finally, one of the nurses escorted her out.....  :-)

Terry Farrell

On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:07 AM, David Pritchard wrote:

> 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