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@wtg said in 25th Amendment. Seriously.:

Leavitt says these things with a straight face. Remarkable.

yep. They have become totally immune to how these things sound

@wtg said in 25th Amendment. Seriously.:

Why is no one questioning this man's sanity?

Clearly because they are so unpatriotic and so selfish that all they care about is protecting their own interests.

Or wondering, at least, why he's wasting time and money on crap like this?

Indeed. I would love to see a detailed report of all the unnecessary expenditures like this that are happening, each with a column that gives a numerical ranking on a scale of 1 to 10 of the level of petty…. Or in a sanity. This one would be a 10.

A series of plaques

It’s the plaque version of his social media posts.

@CHAS said in The Great Chicago Tune-Off (from 1997):

I think he is 80.

Yikes! How is his hearing?

I had a tuner when we lived in the South, before I found the ex-S&S tuner (who was excellent!) and he was quite elderly and very hard of hearing! He used an ETA. And of course, back then that was when I had the rickety old Baldwin upright, so it was more than good enough!

@Rontuner nice, that’s great!

I would imagine that a big city like Chicago will alway be better able to support more tuners than the smaller cities and towns.

Also, not important but in my post above, I meant to write “ I would love to have heard some of those!” (Not “I would drive to have heard…” silly autocorrect! I edited it of course!)

@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 love 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.

I saw this on Facebook, it’s an article from a 1997 issue of the Piano Technicians Journal. They had two veteran tuners tune two side-by-side pianos, one aurally and one with an ETD, and then had listeners do a blind listening test. I would imagine there are more recent tests like this with more recent technology, but I thought this was a fun read nevertheless. It almost made me wonder if this magazine is still in publication (perhaps online?)

It seems to me that a lot of people have lost their jobs for saying similar things about Charlie Kirk…

I loved When Harry Met Sally.

Add This is Spinal Tap to the list!

@wtg said in My. God.:

I'm just

Me too. It looks like he had four children.

Reiners’ daughter found her parents Sunday afternoon.

@kluurs OMG those are hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

@kluurs that's hysterical!

Thank you for all the time you put into keeping this place up and running!!

@Bernard said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:

can't believe that I wrote it was generally accepted that sans serif was easier to read in print! No, I meant serif was generally accepted as easier to read.

I actually wondered if that was a typo.

@wtg said in LOLcritters (winter hat edition):

check out Loki, too !

I missed that, very cute!!

@wtg those are all adorable!!!

Yours too, @adagiom

@Mary-Anna said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:

My guess is that they felt the difference because serif fonts were what they were used to seeing.

I imagine this is a huge part of it.

Once when I was reviewing cover letters and CVs, I remember one applicant who used an odd (to me) font that I found incredibly hard to read. It was so distracting that I stopped and looked at the font for a while, trying to get used to it. I also tried to make sure that what I perceived as a lack of readability wasn't making me judge the contents more harshly. It was a serif font. It still doesn't make sense to me why I reacted to strongly. But I did.

I always tell my students to use TNR, 12 point, 1 inch margins and to not right-justify.

Also, have I mentioned that I hate Aptos?

They started by bringing his gumbo to the hospital. Then they went out and helped find him a new apartment, right next to the restaurant, so the employees could always keep a watchful eye.

@wtg Looks yummy!!

@steve-miller wow, you all are making fast work of it! Looks great!

@Piano-Dad said in What news media do you pay for/subscribe to?:

Like most academics, I'm a bit spoiled by having library access so I don't actually have to pay for lots of news sources (WSJ, for instance).

Same. WSJ is definitely one that comes to mind, and also CHE. Those are practically on speed dial in my browser when I go to the library page.

@Piano-Dad said in What news media do you pay for/subscribe to?:

This is not a random slice of the population, you know

No, but I'm more interested in this population than a random sample.