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I paid about 4600 Euro... That's not cheap, but I played alot of U3's and other piano's, and this one really was the best piano I played. Better as any new U3 I played... When I played it, I just had to buy it, even if it was over my budget. And I'm happy I did.
 
OT goes OT

hehe

The OT "jobs" thread has spawned its own OT discussion of piano tuning. Mebbe someone will post an MP3 of piano tuning and bring it full circle?

Queue :D
 
I'm a general carpenter,that means everything from custom made rooms to digging ditches.

I work for a small company,me the boss and a helper.
He has a really nice shop,and is a great guy.
We do a lot of high end custom work,most of the time!
Every once in a while I have to dig a ditch,just to keep me humble!
We'll do an addition and a complete custom interior,everything but electrical,ac,and of course plumbing!

It takes a special talent to do plumbing!:D

Pretty interesting most of the time,but my backs giving out,(so is his.)

Man,I should have listened to my ma and been a piano tuner!
 
Foreign service technologist.
Maintain, and install PBX's, routers, switches, alarm systems, radios, satellite earth stations, workstations, servers, and lots more at various Embassies/High Commissions/Consulates around the world.
Also get to live abroad from time to time. Port of Spain, Trinidad (2 yrs), Tokyo (3 yrs) and now off to Seoul for another 3 yrs.

Great job ! :D Wish I had more time to play, though.

Mike
 
muzeman said:
I'm a general carpenter,that means everything from custom made rooms to digging ditches.

I work for a small company,me the boss and a helper.
He has a really nice shop,and is a great guy.
We do a lot of high end custom work,most of the time!
Every once in a while I have to dig a ditch,just to keep me humble!
We'll do an addition and a complete custom interior,everything but electrical,ac,and of course plumbing!

It takes a special talent to do plumbing!:D

Pretty interesting most of the time,but my backs giving out,(so is his.)

Man,I should have listened to my ma and been a piano tuner!

Muze,

My turn to take us again off topic. I am a full time Cop. But as a hobby and for my house I work quite a bit with wood and cabinet making. Anyway I am just finishing up a set of 10 foot custom cabinets with stile and rail doors that I built from scratch. I have been having a great time with it, just taking my time as I have it. Should be done this weekend. The wife will be happy too. Anway thought I would throw that out.

Fangar
 
muzeman said:

Every once in a while I have to dig a ditch,just to keep me humble!
You are so right. It makes getting into the writing mode even easier!
 
I see some pleasant ways to gain an income.

I chef for a balance and fitness club. It is stressful, low paying, tedious at times, creative, demanding and forsaken work. But, I find myself loving it just the same. The hours are odd and anti-social. I can strut around all day long and avoid any "traffic lunch jam". I never find myself at a holiday weekend madness congession function (cause I'm cooking for all the normal people). And I think I've stayed with it cause the job affords a creative (making food taste good and interesting)edge and an insight into society that few other jobs can claim. It is truely amazing how pissed off a person can get about an egg that is (in there opinion) over done. Rant, rave and make the waitress cry over one meal when they just came from church. On the other hand, I've had guests that insist on getting permission to visit the kitchen and thank me for the food.

People are wierd and always cool to view. Cooking gives you an inside window of the general masses and a chance to infuence strangers. Good fodder for song writing and motivation to make more music.

Theron.
 
Officially I do software sales and marketing but actually I am the resident HR mixer and midi routing expert and assistant behringer basher. Chess is my supervisor in that dept ;)

If all goes well in the next few months I'll be going back into audio engineering for an internet radio station and starting up my own studio. Hopefully the radio gig will get me enough clients.
 
Fangar,
That sounds really cool!
Nothing like doing it yourself.

The wife and I bought an old dining room set,a compressor and sprayer.
We set it up in the back yard and refinished it,(the neighbors think were nuts!)
We had fun though.

SLuiCe,
You know what really gets me in the writing mode,doing insulation for about 8 hours straight in July!
Then I really got the blues!

Pete
 
Lt. Bob said:

Those are the key issues. At least once a year every single year. All the reasons that people give to not tune their piano ( "oh, no ones playing it" or "It still sounds fine") are not valid. Since a piano goes out of tune over a years time.......you get used to it and it sounds ok.
Also, it can take a few tunings (i.e. a couple of years) to get a piano fully stabilized and it is helpful, as Twist mentioned, for the same tuner to do them because he will get a "feel" for that particular piano. Every single one of the damn things is different and behaves differently. I usually find once a year is sufficient for most people. But that might not be enough in places where the temperature changes more with the seasons than it does here.
Lastly, if the piano is below pitch very much it can take multiple tunings to get it up to pitch and stabilized. I consider anything over 1/4 step flat to require multiple tunings. The more below pitch, the more tunings. 1/2 step requires three tunings.

Hey, our piano hasn't been tuned in 10 years at least. It still sounded fine. But one day, we got this synthesizer keyboard. I fiddled with it in the same room as the piano, and decided to check if they were even close with each other. The piano is HORRIBLY detuned.

Hey. You can come tune our piano. Preferrably next christmas. Just ast Santa Claus to drop you off at Finland if you catch him :D
 
Cool.................you do realize I'll have to add a trip charge? :D
 
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