Terri, 'per se', yes, no there is no musical allusion. I was looking at the
irony of 'the good ear' which is required by both tuner (musician manque)and
musician (per se) and wondering how the tuner settles for the mundane task
while possessing the passport to the art itself. Rather as the critic said
of Chekov's 'Three Sister' that how could the play possibly be taken
seriously when three girls with money enough for a rail ticket to Moscow
fill our evening with lamentations about not being able to go.....ah sweet
mysteries of life. Philip
PS Sorry I couldn't find the acute accent for manque.
>From: alderoak <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new sub: piano tuner
>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:23:15 -0000
>
>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
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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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