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  • 1.  Be thankful to be an American Piano Tuner rather than Swedish

    Posted 12-29-2020 08:25
    Apparently the whole Piano Technician world has seen this video:
    I Put GUITAR Strings on a Piano and then Hired a Piano Tech to Come Fix it
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    He also used fishing line. 
    I Put FISHING Line on a Piano and then Hired a Piano Tech to Fix it

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    Best wishes and wishing a Happy New Year without fishing line or guitar strings,

    David P





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    David Pinnegar BSc ARCS
    Hammerwood Park, East Grinstead, Sussex, UK
    +44 1342 850594
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  • 2.  RE: Be thankful to be an American Piano Tuner rather than Swedish

    Posted 12-30-2020 13:09
    David, do you agree with this statement in the comments section for that video?

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    Richard Adkins
    Piano Technician
    Coe College
    Cedar Rapids, IA
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  • 3.  RE: Be thankful to be an American Piano Tuner rather than Swedish

    Posted 12-30-2020 15:38
    I'm not sure which video you're seeing that comment in. But 150 years ago regional accents were very strong and many people didn't go beyond their village. Even in the 1980s in Sussex I came across an 18 year old lad who'd never travelled just 30 miles to London. But now the Sussex accent has all but died and I rarely hear it now. 

    http://www.sussexhistory.co.uk/sussex-dialect/sussex-dialect.html is a classic resource and there are words there wholly unknown to modern Englanders. From memory I recall it said that there were twenty two different words for different types of mud.

    A direct OCR scan is on https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofsuss00pariuoft/dictionaryofsuss00pariuoft_djvu.txt and topical, at random, bearing in mind Wuhan and the alleged source of our troubles - 
    BATFOWLER. One who takes birds at night with a large folding- 
net on long poles, called a batfowling net. 

Gon: "You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift the moon 
out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without 
changing." 
Seb : " We would so, and then go a batfowling." 

Tempest, Act ii. sc. I.
    clearly derived from Shakespeare. So did this practice of catching birds derive from catching bats in England?

    However, it's not just a matter of linguistics. A 50 mile drive will normally take an hour if half of it is on a motorway (freeway?) and without the fast road on an ordinary road, up to 2 hours. The roads navigated around systems of fields laid out between 500 and 1000 years ago. 
    This map shows some neighbouring land to the north and the roads haven't changed since 1641. This map shows a hammer pond which supplied power to the hammer and the forge marked on Scarlett's Pond and local field names such as Mine Pit Shaw refer to the local iron industry which made the cannon for the ships which fought the Spanish Armada. 

    So yes, England is an antiquated place, and indeed travelling 50 miles navigating old roads could indeed leave one in a state of confusion.

    Travelling from Sussex to Wales, for instance, where I've tuned for
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZTd-mWDek
    is the best part of 200 miles and a four hour journey so working there is really an overnight job.

    Best wishes and Christmastide Greetings,

    David P



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    David Pinnegar BSc ARCS
    Hammerwood Park, East Grinstead, Sussex, UK
    +44 1342 850594
    "High Definition" Tuning
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