XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: robban1@bigpond.com   
      
   On 24/08/11 11:30 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >> 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. (-:   
      
   No, it's the little boy working the bellows. I thought that was a   
   privilege the first time I volunteered.   
      
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   Robert Bannister   
      
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