[CAUT] Knock, knock.....

[David Ilvedson]

Nice of them to let you buy tickets so you can touch up the piano...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 10/26/2007 3:38:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Knock, knock.....


>Avery Todd wrote:
>> Hey, Bob.
>> > You're evil!!!!!!!!!!! LOL> 
>> Avery Todd


>Degradation does occur whenever pianos are locked in concert halls...

>We do two shows of our Christmas program on one night(5 performances/4 
>days). I had tuned the instruments that morning and relocked them, as 
>usual. (We'd been having a lot of unauthorized usage at the time, so 
>security was tight) I'd gotten tickets for, and showed up for, the 
>second performance to be greeted with, "The piano was still locked when 
>the .... choir (primo of 6) went to use it."

>Oops...

>The conductor just went to the next choir/number, with hardly a hitch. 
>Ever since, however, I've gotten tickets for the first show, and look to 
>see if the lock is in place. (also to attend to emergencies, retune 
>harpsichord, etc. between shows)





>> 
>> On 10/25/07, *ITUNEPIANO at aol.com <mailto:ITUNEPIANO at aol.com>* < 
>> ITUNEPIANO at aol.com <mailto:ITUNEPIANO at aol.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     The concert was about to start, the lights went down.  From my spot
>>     in the audience, I heard the stage door jiggle...then it jiggled
>>     harder, obviously it was locked.   I heard a key in the lock, then
>>     another.  I realized I needed to quickly make my way back stage!   I
>>     found the artist and the Chair of piano studies trying every key
>>     they had in the lock in a futile attempt to open the door to the
>>     stage!   Fortunately, my master key worked, and the concert
>>     proceeded.  It turns out the audio guy usually unlocked the stage
>>     door before each concert, but he missed this concert, and no one
>>     thought to check the door!  Hee hee,   
>>      
>>     Bob Maret, RPT
>>     Piano Technician 

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