Hi Philip,
Yeh, if he's got grand ieas, words, phrases, why not use em!
Bob
>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re Re: new sub: piano tuner (completed)
>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:09:46 +0000
>
>Thanks, Bob, Interesting idea, to personalise it. I'll put my thinking cap
>on my tuning fork and have a stab at it. Ow!.....and you are welcome to my
>piano tuner, he's always bragging about his millionaire clients and what
>big ones they've got! Philip
>
>>From: Bob Cooper <[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 (completed)
>>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:06:04 +0000
>>
>>Hi Philip,
>>I think I'd prefer this poem to be about an actual (even if invented)
>>piano tuner. (I think it probably is about one - but the poem doesn't
>>really mention one I can see!) I think I'd enjoy seeing someone in the
>>piece - and all the comments, the humour, would probably fit without too
>>much trouble.
>>How to do that? Just be less reflective and start with something like:
>>She/He meets flat G flat minors... (etc)
>>Or you "might" be able to still use the first stanza first and start:
>>She/He meets dissonance... (etc)
>>But then you may find that the shape of the poem (in 3-line-stanzas) might
>>want to change as well.
>>(Ooops this dissappeared from my screen and I hadn't finished it!). I'll
>>continue...
>>I enjoy what's here a lot. I'm just thinking, because I don't meet that
>>many piano tuners at work, it might be interesting to get to meet one!
>>Bob
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>>>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: new sub: piano tuner
>>>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:01:18 +0000
>>>
>>> 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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