Gratuities & concert tuning

[Jim Busby]

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Avery,
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I'm with you on use of concert grands. We have 9 recitals scheduled in
the next 3 days! Each "piano major" is allowed one rehearsal before
their recital on the concert instrument they will play. Master classes
are held every Monday. I never counted up for the month but it seems
similar to yours. However, one week we had 19 recitals. We have to stay
on top of these pianos daily.
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Jim Busby
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From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Avery Todd
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:49 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: Gratuities & concert tuning
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Richard



   Another consideration of performance instruments is that they really
get
played very little.... unless they are also used for practice.   If a
concert grand gave three performances a week, the playing time would be,
say, one hour per day or 3 hours a week?  Tuning of this should take
about
1.5 hours a week.  What concert grand gets performed on as much as 3
hours a
week?  Chances are they get practiced on much more than performance or
tuning.

Richard Moody

Going to have to disagree here. At least in my case and I imagine in a
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of others. Just out of curiosity, I went through and counted the
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scheduled for the month of April just in our primary student recital
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21 for voice & various other instruments and 17 for piano, at least half

or so are at the Master's or DMA level, one using both 'D's. That's in=20
addition to a few Masterclasses and all the dress rehersals. There are
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10-11 hrs. use per week for the piano teachers' studio classes.=20

And are 3 weekend days not booked at all because of Easter!=20

So I think ours are used just "little" more than 3 hrs. a week for=20
performances. :-)=20

Avery=20

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