Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor?

[Avery]

I'm SO glad I'm retiring!!!!! :-D

Avery

At 12:32 PM 5/6/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Jerry,
>
>Even with an ETD I can't tolerate a vacuum.  However, I was able to 
>get through a tuning on a dock staging area that had one of those 
>huge blowers going.  That was the first tuning I did totally with 
>the machine, string by string.  I was amazed at how good the tuning 
>was then next morning (at 6:00 am) when I was contracted to do the 
>"touch-up."   Performance conditions and schedules are sometimes pretty weird.
>
>Barbara Richmond, RPT
>near Peoria, IL
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:ArbeauPiano at comcast.net>Arbeau Piano
>To: <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>pianotech at ptg.org
>Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:10 AM
>Subject: Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor?
>
>
>Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 6:45 PM
>Subject: Wisdom of the Senior Church Janitor?
>
>This week while tuning a church sancturary piano, a young man 
>dragging a large canister vacuum cleaner behind him entered the 
>sancturary and paused noticing what I was doing. Without a word he 
>left the room.
>
>A few minutes later an older janitor walked up behind me, looked 
>over my shoulder very intently watching my tuning process, and then 
>quickly exited to the hall without a word to converse with the younger one.
>
>The conversation to the younger was, "If he were tuning with one of 
>those machines you could have gone ahead and vacuumed, but since he 
>tunes by ear you'll just have to wait until he is done.'
>
>I'm so glad that I had just put away my verituner before I had 
>started my fine tuning and aural checks!  Do you find that you can 
>tune with a vacuum cleaner in the background with one of those "machines"?!
>
>Jerry Arbeau
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