At 02:12 PM 05/20/2000 EDT, you wrote: > > >>do you know whether Elton John has a tech with him? > >Greetings, > He will probably not carry a tech with him. When he played the Opry >house here in the early eighties, the piano was unloaded 90 minutes before >the show, and was approx. 30 degrees. It was so sharp, I had trouble >hearing the beats with the fork. > I advised his stage manager that it oughta be left alone, but they >lowered some big lights near it to "warm up the strings". Then told me that >I had to tune it, it was in the contract and if it wasn't tuned, there was no >show. I began, and as I went, I realized that nothing was staying where I >put it. By show time, the thing sounded worse than any piano I had ever been >connected with but nobody said a word. >go figure, >Ed Foote > > It's probably because it takes a real musician to know if the piano is not in tune. Dave
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