@Rontuner said in The Great Chicago Tune-Off (from 1997): There have been a few "tune-offs" over the years - some between equal temperament and alternates and others between competing electronic tuning devices. (I hosted/ran one of those for the Chicago chapter years ago, using a number of Baldwin school upright pianos - notoriously difficult scale design for devices to calculate a decent tuning) Cool! I would drive to have heard some of those! One note about the first tune-off: I studied a bit with Virgil Smith Oh cool! I figured you might know about this but I should have known you would actually know them! Am I remembering correctly that you are semi-retired now? Or are you fully retired? Or am I fully wrong? Did you have anyone take over your clients? I had this story on Piano Tell and it’s turned into a discussion of how hard it is to find a tuner now. I might have mentioned that my current turner is the retired head technician for the music school here. He is amazing. His tunings make my piano sounds great glorious and the tunings seem to last forever. But he’s probably closer is indeed semi-retired and will eventually fully retire. And then I can only hope that I’ll be able to find someone else who’s even remotely close to his capabilities. The dwindling number of tuners always makes me very sad.

@dolmansaxlil That was a lovely, lovely book!

Any economic historian in the house know what the "capital investment vs. labor investment" ratio was when our ancestors adopted steam engines?

Yeah, this is a big difference between Western democracies and the Asian countries. India and China are very big on going all-electric for every day commerce, but (at least for China) there is always suspicion that they go all-electronic to tighten controls by the government.

@wtg said in My. God.: President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting today the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person.” “I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office, less than a day after Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in what is being investigated as a homicide. “He became like a deranged person – ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ So, I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” he said. The irony is this level of narcissism meets the definition of deranged 100x over.

Nothing would seem surprising at this point.

Imperious corrupt monster. How dare she lecture us.

Princess Bride… or maybe Stand By Me. But it’s amazing how many classics he was involved with.

It was Gene Hackman who died, after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus. So sad.

I cooked a couple of squashes yesterday, one delicata and the other a kabocha. Both were splittable with a big chef's knife without pre-cooking. In my experience, butternut squash is in a whole 'nother category...

Got me thinking what that process would look like in 3D if it were in a weightless environment. Unfortunately I couldn't find a video for this with a quick Google search.

Agreed! Mr wtg and I have watched some of her shows on PBS and enjoyed them immensely.

Link to video

Of course! D'oh

New this year will be making Demi-glacé. We ff to buy some bones…

One state governor said he regretted signing a bill permitting sports gambling online. Sports gambling was illegal???