Being called out on stage

[Gregor _]

I say: you are right, should not happen. But it´s okay to sign a contract that the tuner has to stay until the pause to check the instrument again.
 
I tune somtimes for jazz concerts and my tunings usually hold for the whole concert, even when the player has a very expressive style. But for concerts my tuning style is very expressive, too. Looks more like karate than tuning :-)
 
Gregor
 
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:34 +0100> From: ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Being called out on stage> > If me memory serves me right... this general thread was prompted beyond > its initial couple postings by a story about Keith Jarrett being unhappy > with a tuning during the middle of a concert and demanding the piano be > touched up. Mr. Jarrett had, at least some years back, a reputation for > being rather difficult about instruments... many would have it > unreasonably so. Not wishing to take any particular position on exactly > that issue... I am still curious...> > For those who have experienced being called on stage for your own or > someone elses instrument at intermission or even in the middle of a > set... how often do you feel this has been an unreasonable action on the > part of the artist. And I mean even unreasonable in the more harmless > sense like when a pianist just wants the added assurance of the piano > being gone over during the break.> > Myself... it strikes me that under normal operating conditions a piano > should hold tuning plenty well enough during a whole concert. I suppose > by that I mean 95 % of the time at least. Being on stage after the > concert starts is something I've never had to do for any of my own > work... and I've come to view it as an undesirable. If the curtain was > down... and audience out of eye and ear range... well perhaps it might > be acceptable.... but really... it should nearly never be necessary. > Extremes of climatic conditions being about the only plausible > exception.....> > What say ye ?> > Cheers> RicB> 
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