"tinny" - pet peeves

[David Ilvedson]

Good thing you have tenure...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 6/15/2006 8:56:08 AM
Subject: "tinny" - pet peeves


>At 08:36 AM 6/15/2006, Tom Cole wrote:
>>David Nereson wrote:
>>>...
>>>I don't know why it grates on me so, but I wish people, especially 
>>>technicians, would not just use a term like "tinny" automatically 
>>>in describing, in this case, a unison that's not beatless.  To me, 
>>>the habit falls in the same category as calling the hammers the 
>>>"pads," and the plate the "harp."
>>>
>>Another one I find puzzling is "casters" when they mean caster cups.

>What gets to me is that people call everything you do to a piano 
>"tuning".  The other day I was standing in Studio One at San 
>Francisco State with a big heavy hammer in my  hand, stringing a 
>Hamburg D, pounding away at it. This woman walks in and says (and I 
>quote) "Do you work here or are you just tuning the piano?"  I gave 
>her a funny look and asked her: "Do you see anything here that could 
>possibly be tuned? And what else could this be that I'm doing if not 
>working?" You sholda seen the look on her face...

>Israel Stein