>I have been thoroughly talked out of trying to smuggle lacquer on this trip. >It's just not worth the hassle. Good thinking. >Your alternative solutions, though, are worth keeping in mind. I never >thought about nail polish and nail remover...basically similar stuff with a >different name. Necessity........invention. >Anyhow it's Bon Voyage as of this coming Saturday. Tour raps up Oct. 15. >Talk to y'all when I return. >Tom Servinsky, RPT Tom......Thank you from the bottom of my heart for challenging me to go "old school," to tune with just a hammer and a mute. I've done 3 tunings: a new C7, a big upright Samick, and a 12-year old C6. Dude. This is the natural progression for me. I love tuning this way.....it's so final, so serious, so precise. Another way to demand more of my ears, of my hands, of my innate musical sense. I can't thank you enough for inspiring me to go all the way into Virgil's protocol. I tried it once or twice 4 years ago after I saw Virgil at an all-day class in LA, but I wasn't ready for it. I had to learn how to trust the fourths completely. Now I'm ready, and the feedback on these 3 pianos from the players has been luminous----and I LOVE the sound and feel of it, which is most important..... :---) And now, an amazing "coincidence" that is, IMHO, no such thing. I was talking to my good friend Steve Edwards this AM. I've been maintaining and restoring his Steinways for years, and we've become pretty close; at the end of our conversation, he mentioned that he had somebody he wanted me to meet in a month---the guy who does his Mom's piano in Florida: Tom Servinsky. You can imagine my incredulity. I'll see you in a month, and I'll buy you the best dinner I can afford..........Thanks again. You've given me a lot in a short time.....David A
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