My brain hurts!

Day 21.

Mum and Dad left today so we had to be up fairly early so they could get ready and leave in plenty of time. We popped into the workshop so they could say their final goodbyes before they drove off to Pavia, leaving me at the shop. I walked back home to do a few things before I returned to work at 10. 
Today I started something new - the second tuning stage. This requires attaching the finished reed blocks onto another homemade bellows machine (a different design to the other one) and choosing the reed you wish to tune. With this tuning method we use two very precise iPad/iPhone tuning apps. To tune we use a file, little hooks and varying sizes of thin, round metal rods with sharp edges to scrape away at the reeds The difficulty with this method is that half of the reeds are inside the reed blocks, so they're hard to access and therefore tune. I'll post photos of it tomorrow. I struggled with it and Claudio had to correct me/show me again several times.
I got home at lunch to find a few food items on the table - I'd asked Erica and Ivana to pick them up from the supermarket for me. My lunch was a plate piled high with focaccia, tomato, salami and mozzarella, while I watched The Two Ronnies.
After lunch I carried on with the tuning until I'd had enough - it requires a lot of concentration so you start to feel tired after a while. Once I'd stopped I helped & watched Claudio finish installing a microphone and MIDI to an accordion, while we listened to lots of folk music. Soon it was time to go home, where I got into my pyjamas straight away before having a veggie-tomato sauce with spaghetti, followed by an apple and ice-cream for dinner.

And now, I think I'll get an early night.

A domani x