[CAUT] How long is too long?

[Paul T Williams]

I forgot to add that the humidity dropped a massive amount (suddenly) 
since Sept, and all the faculty are crying out for tuning.  I also imagine 
the classrooms/practice rooms, etc are just as ugly.  I simply have to 
tell them what's going on with all these performances and they'll just 
have to wait....their  stamp, moan, whines, etc is another stress to 
contend with! I have learned to shrug this part off and say, "it's only me 
and you'll just have to make do until all this other stuff is out of the 
way." Time stress far outweighs the number of pianos type stress. I'm used 
to that now going into my 5th year here with 110 instruments in my care. 
Just glad to have a job!!

Paul




From:
Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To:
caut at ptg.org
Date:
10/20/2010 03:30 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] How long is too long?



Yes, Susan, I get overly anxious about these things when so many other 
things are happening at the same time.  Feltzman is at Lied next week, 
using all 3 of their grands...Two B's and the D over there for master 
classes, practice and performance.  There is also the student grad and 
undergrad concerto competitions happening Sunday, Monday, and 
Wednesday-using 2 pianos tuned together each night.  My favorite DMA 
student has a performance Tuesday eve on this new Steinway project, the 
same night as Feltzman. I'm not freaking out over one piano, but 6. So, 
I'm not stressing out about just one performance!  You can understand the 
pressure, I'm sure. It's not as bad as our Liszt Fest last spring with our 
central west regional conference was happening and to top it all off, my 
father in law passing away all the same week, but it's close.  This kind 
of stuff happens about twice per year.  The rest of the time, I'm pretty 
laid back and unstressed. 

Paul 

  




From: 
Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> 
To: 
caut at ptg.org 
Date: 
10/20/2010 12:13 PM 
Subject: 
Re: [CAUT] How long is too long?




On 10/20/2010 5:42 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: 
That would be in a perfect world!  The piano is being used on Saturday. 
Now that fall break is over, I have until noon today, then just a couple 
hours on Thursday morning and Friday morning.  It should work. (unless it 
doesn't!)  Worse case scenario would be that they have to use the Baldwin 
D on Saturday, but it's a fine piano and these aren't piano majors 
performing, just accompanying.  Paul 

Have you ever noticed that so often we tend to run on anxiety, fighting 
deadlines, as if something is crucial, but in retrospect, all "FAILURE" 
would mean was that someone would play an accompaniment on a Baldwin D 
which was not a bad piano either? 

You know, every time we stress out several days over nothing much (and I 
surely do that as often as anyone!) we lose a little health and longevity? 
Cortisol has its price.

Susan Kline 


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