Went to see Saw lll with an old gf I hadn’t seen for about 3 years. everytime there was a scary part…well, at least SHE thought it was scary, she SCREAMED right in my ear! I mean the most high-pitched, loudest scream!
She would grab my arm (and dig those nails in! 
) and turn her head toward me-so she wouldn’t see the screen-and just wail away into my ear! I’m almost deaf in my right ear! Anyway, I thought the first saw was best, although it wasn’t that scary, just very graphic! 
I might take her to see the original “Halloween”, but I really need to get my hearing back…I am a piano tuner after all!
HAH a deaf piano tuner wouldnt realy work out:p
haha! Tell me about it! There are blind tuners though, but yes, ye need ye ears!
Nah, those electronic tuning gizmos are good enough. They work for guitars. 
eww, i heard lots of stories of how that movie is and EWWWW like the whole key in the acid part is disgusting 
You couldn’t pay me to see that movie.
But a piano tuner? That’s very cool. Too bad you’re not on the east coast. My mother hasn’t had her Steinway baby grand tuned since my dad died in 1991. It could use it.
I use a sanderson Accutuner which is a useful tool, great for pitch raises and setting temperaments, but there is NO substitute for your ears! “Unisons” MUST be perfected aurally; no EDT (electronic tuning device) can do that nearly as well as your ears. So basically, the ETD does the “grunt work”, and the fine tuning/corrections are done by ear.
Also, guitars and pianos are apples and oranges! Pianos have an average of 220+ strings, which can retain a total tension ranging from 20,000-60,000 pounds! Guitars…hahahah! 6 strings and maybe 80-120 pounds! No comparison.
Btw, an average piano tuning takes about 1 hour (if performed by a seasoned tech, like myself…much longer by a newbie. :D) and more than 2,000 specific, strategic, minute tuning pin movements must be made during the course of a basic tuning.
I put the pink smiley in there for a reason.
You piano tuners can be so high strung.
Hey that was pun-ny! Nah, I just like talkin’ about piano tuning! It’s kinda like a celbrity who is still excited about meeting “Stars”. I’ve been a piano tech for more than 8 years but I love it now more than ever!
Screw ears. go with vibrations of the string!.
That’s how I tune my guitar when no one else will be quite for me. I just feel the vibration from the 5th harmonics I hit on the string. Feel the vibration through the neck of the guitar, and tune that way.
I wanna go see Saw 3. =p
I hate scary movies…
I only hate them if they’re not done well. “Psycho”, “The Bride of Frankenstein”, “Halloween” and that “I see dead people” movie are examples of very well made scary movies done with style and let’s YOU, the viewer use your own imagination, instead of mindless, gratuitous viloence just for shock value. Kindof like a comedian saying F##K every other word. It’s not necessary if you have good material. Ask Jerry Seinfeld.
i saw the first two (don’t tell my parents) and they were amazing…i loved them…the poetic justice of it all is great…i wan to see the third really bad. But i thought the second one was better than the first.
Next time you’re near Spokane Washington could you tune my Acrosonic? Hasn’t been tuned since the 80’s and I wouldn’t trust a bicyclist with it…
The theory and practice of piano tuning would be interesting. At least I find that sort of stuff interesting. It’s the tech side of music. The different styles of tuning, how different types of pianos affect that, and things like that.
Unfortunately my hearing is not very good. I could never be a piano tuner.
Ah yes, the venerable Baldwin Acrosonic spinet! One of the better small pianos. Baldwin was first to put the spinet on the market in the US in 1936!; Spinets in general aren’t made anymore, but I’ve tuned a gazillion of 'em. Based on how long it’s been since it was tuned, it would also need a sizeable pitch raise! It’s got to be waaaay flat! Pianos really need to be tuned at least twice per year, which isn’t very often considering every other instrument is tuned each time you play it. Only keyboard instruments are tuned by trained techs, owing to the complexity of the instrument and the specialized tuning requirements. Humidity fluxuations are the primary reason why pianos go “out of tune”. When the sound board shrinks and swells with moisture variations, the string tension changes with it, but the drop in pitch is always greater than the rise, so over say, 20 years without tuning, that acrosonic is most likely THOUSANDS of pounds FLAT in string tension! Pianos that are used on stage and in recording studios are tuned before EACH performance…which often is several times…per day! 
This concludes today’s lesson. We’ll have a quiz later!
My school’s piano’s are in dire need of tuning. God, the only thing playable are the electronic keyboards.
This reminds me of a music compition that my school took part in. National Capital Musicfest. It was our stage band. So we are all in the warmup room and the music teacher is having one hell of a time trying to tune the bass. So he takes it and gets the keyboardist to play the note and tries to tune it. He just cranks the crap out of the tuning peg and guess what? It falls off. Yeah, he broke the bass, well sorta. We found a set of vicegrips which acted as a big ass tuning peg.
It turned out that the player before us had screwed with the tuning knob on the back of the piano and it was about 5 tones too high. Whoops.
Sooooo, then we get on stage and try and retune the bass but the same thing happens. I was playing guitar and I was all tuned up with my electronic tuner. The piano played the note and I did too. I was SURE that it was different. So I turned on the tuner and sure enough, the note is way high. Then one of the judges came up and tried to turn it off but finally he just unpluged an effects processor and it worked. It was a wierd day…
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I wanna hear more about the girl. haha. Get it? Hear. Just playing man.
-SJ
haha, I’ll remember to just wear an ear plug in my right ear next time! Hmmm, maybe that’s the answer to their constant nagging? 
sit 0n her right side