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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: piano tuner   
   24 Aug 11 16:30:12   
   
   XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM   
      
   > He tunes only pianos.  He says that some piano tuners tune both organs   
   > and pianos, but church organ tuning requires two people and he works   
   > alone.  One person is on the keyboard, and the second is up around the   
   > pipes.   He didn't explain the second person's function, though.   
      
   The second person is the one adjusting the tuning.  It is not, after   
   all, the console that makes the sounds in a church pipe organ.  (-:   
      
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