I like this rather askance look at a strange breed

love the wry 'incidental' - the allusion to TV backdrop tinkling - as if the
owner of the piano is the serious musician.

not sure about 'musician per se' - is there some musical allusion to 'per
se' that I'm missing?

Terri )O(

-----Original Message-----
From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Philip Burton
Sent: 06 December 2002 19:01
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Subject: new sub: piano tuner


    piano tuner

1.

Is there a kick to be had
from dissonance, a perverse
professional thrill

in meeting flat G# minors
almost a semitone off?
Cerebrospinally

awful dins (to us mortals)
recalled with arcane pleasure?
A database kept

of all the shite notes to hit
in the, otherwise dull, Tuners'
Convention?


2.

how do you break into tuning?
Have a good ear, my Mother said -
implying

the other ear is bad, prefers
Edmundo Ross to The Three Tenors
and hangs out in bars

Piano tuners don’t get to play a
tune at all, do they? Or if they do
it’s incidental

The tuner must be thinking -
if only my good ear were one of a pair
I could be a musician per se






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