[CAUT] Neckties R us

[Edward Sambell]

Thanks Avery; it's nice to hear from you. I have my own story too, don't we all, 
but it takes so long to tell I will not bother anyone with it. I came as close 
to complete disaster as could ever be imagined, but it all came right. I was 
tuning for a duo piano concert and knew the pianists well. They never knew of 
the near calamity until I met them many years later and told them.

Ted Sambell




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From: Avery <ptuner1 at gmail.com>
To: "caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 1:51:57 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us


Ted. Love it. Almost as good as Jim's necktie story. LOL

On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Edward Sambell <esambell at yahoo.com> wrote:


I call that going beyond the call of duty, and kudos to Jim.. I can think of two 
more. The first was when one of my graduates was involved in a recording. The 
pianist was being distracted by a persistent fly, and getting very upset. So our 
hero went out and bought six sticky fly papers and hung them around the piano 
lid. The fly was caught and all then went well. The second one was told me by my 
friend Henri Kneifel. Years ago he had to prepare the piano for Horowitz in 
Ottowa. When Horowitz arrived he complained that the piano was not level, due to 
a sloping stage. so Henri found a hardware store and bought a level. He checked 
the piano, and sure enough, Horowitz was right, The piano was duly righted and 
all was well. We do get some remarkable challenges, and it is so good when one 
can rise  to the occasion. 

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>Ted Sambell
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From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu>
>To: "caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org>
>Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 11:13:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
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>Ooops…
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>Delete that everyone. Ssshhhhhh….(!!!)
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>J
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>From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Busby
>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:12 AM
>To: Ed Sutton; caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
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>Ed,
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>This was the Lincoln Center folks. Tops dogs. Wu Han was the pianist and this 
>cellist was 24 years old. I didn’t want to offend him by printing names.
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>Fwiw.
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>J
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>From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Sutton
>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:33 AM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From:Jim Busby 
>>To:caut at ptg.org 
>>Sent:Monday, January 24, 2011 10:30 PM
>>Subject:[CAUT] Neckties R us
>> 
>>All,
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>>A short while ago (I won’t mention when nor whom) a world famous quartet 
>>performed here and I tuned the piano. About 5 minutes before the house opened 
>>one of the performers came up to me with a rather frantic sounding plight “I 
>>forgot my tie! Please, do you have one?” “I’ll get you one” I told him.
>> 
>>Now think. What would you do?
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>>I went out the door and standing in line was a very well dressed young man and 
>>his date. I spoke quietly so others couldn’t hear “Excuse me, but the performer 
>>just realized that he doesn’t have a tie. How about loaning him yours?” The 
>>fellow smiled and said “Sure. Here!” I could tell he saw the humor in it. The 
>>cute girl with him giggled and squeezed his arm.
>> 
>>In the Green room I handed him the tie. He asked in his fairly good English “Do 
>>you know how to tie it?”. “Sure.” I tied it, helped him straighten out his 
>>collar, etc. then I smiled and told him “You’re just like my son, only younger.” 
>>He grinned big, held my eyes for a moment, then went on stage.
>> 
>>With all the tension that comes with along tuning for world famous artists 
>>sometimes moments like this help me relax and enjoy the human side of things.
>> 
>>Jim Busby
>>Gray haired CAUT
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