[CAUT] High profile artists

[Greg Granoff]

Hello Paul,

We had Mr. Corea here at Humboldt several years ago and his crew brought a
rental Yamaha with them.  We could have provided him a much more musical
piano but he seemed fine with what he had.  An hour and a half  of servicing
and he was happy.  My impression about these gigantic piano prep lists that
are sent out in advance of musicians on the road is that they are simply a
sort of heavy-handed attempt to cover all possible bases as a way of self
protection.  These guys undoubtedly have met up with some really stinky,
poorly prepared instruments, and with the assistance of a technician
somewhere along the line, have their people assemble a list of all the
things that might stand in the way of being able to play an instrument
without worry about user friendliness.  You as the tech get a shotgun blast
of stuff "to do", but it as long as the piano has a decent track record of
approval from previous artists, a normal, conscientious concert prep should
be just fine. 

Chick Corea himself probably doesn't even know about half the stuff on the
list, and probably wouldn't want to. Relax.

 

Greg Granoff

HSU

 

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T
Williams
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:53 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] High profile artists

 


Hi List, 

I am about to embark on the most important concert prep I have done to this
point.  Chick Corea is coming to town on February 14 (not a day to my wife's
liking!). He is playing with Gary Burton on vibes and that is all.  I was
wondering if any of you have tuned for him before?  I spoke with his
personal tech in LA a couple of days ago, and then he e-mailed me about 30
hours of work to do on our Steinway D. (His tech is apparantly not in the
Guild, but has been in the biz for some 30 years+)  I have no doubts that
the piano will be beautiful, and I think the piano will probably meet his
standards in about 15-20 hours. that's not my point.  I am just inquiring as
to any tips you all can give me if you have worked for the gentleman. 

Thanks for the input! 

Paul 

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