Leno

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:20 PM -0700 7/26/02, Pianotech wrote:
>I tuned a model IV Petrof at the MGM Grand Hotel for the Jay Leno Show
>tonight and again will be doing it tomarrow. Please don't judge it to
>harshly as the piano was tuned on stage where it is cool and dry. They were
>going to take it back down to the basement about three stories under the
>stage which has Sets for the show FX with water. The humidity is real high
>down there and that is where the piano is kept most of the time. I expect
>the piano to go out of tune during the performance. Oh well just can't win
>sometimes.

You don't need to apologize for the tuning. What people are listening 
to are "Historical Octaves", and they should be grateful for the 
opportunity to have their ears stretched.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
     ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester"
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