[CAUT] Touch ups.. (and I ain't talking about makeup)

[Robin Blankenship]

LOL, not JUST a vacuum clearner; but, a Shop Vac running at full power... 
And, then the "flourish" helps the audience share a moment of being "inside" 
the performance in a way. It's a way of bringing the performer, the 
instrument and the audience all together in an acknowledgement of 
"wow...this pianist must be something else if the tuner has to re-tune in 
the middle of it...wow". At least, that's been my experience..

Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Touch ups.. (and I ain't talking about makeup)


> At 01:50 PM 5/4/2006 -0500, Conrad wrote:
>>Curtain??? Wazzat??? Around here, if I'm doing a touchup, I'm the halftime 
>>show that nobody would notice if there were a wardrobe malfunction.  It's 
>>kinda like tuning unisons INSIDE of a vacuum cleaner. Sucks, but it's got 
>>to be done.  All you can do is the best you can do in the din.
>
>
> Curtain? Curtain?? It would ruin the ambience. They chatter while I'm 
> touching up, then they clap when I finish. I make a flourish (probably 
> looks really dorky) as I walk off, they laugh. Every time.
>
> I really don't see why I would want to hide from these people. All the 
> concert-goers know me by sight after awhile. You couldn't buy advertising 
> like that. (and I don't buy any advertising.)
>
> I go up if I hear anything first half which I don't like or feel dubious 
> about (maybe 1/3 of the concerts). Rarely I check it over and touch 
> nothing, sometimes just one, sometimes I'm tweaking a bunch.
>
> Solo or chamber music or jazz -- I don't triage by program type, except 
> that sometimes if it looks like it's going to be a rock concert, I may not 
> stay for it. Concerti one rarely gets a chance to touch up, because 
> there's usually only one on the program. (What you hear is what you get 
> ...)
>
> Susan
>
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