Being called out on stage

[Michael Magness]

On Dec 31, 2007 7:49 PM, Martin Wisenbaker <mbjwisenbaker at juno.com> wrote:

> This is a time to "perform" at one's best. With emotions under control,
> (no fear, no awareness that there is an audience) go out, do what needs
> to be done, then "discover" the audience play a little for laughs, take a
> bow and disappear.
>
> Martin Wisenbaker, RPT
> Houston, Texas
>


I did tune for George Winston about a year and a half ago. He supplies the
tech with 2 pages of instructions on how he wants the piano prepped. Some of
the highlights include needling the left side of the hammers so the piano
will play softly when he uses the soft pedal, tuning the bass section 9c
flat tuning the 7th octave 30c sharp and preferably tuning the entire piano
to 442 to start with. The tech pre-preps the piano and he comes in the
middle of the night to "try" it. He leaves notes on anything that displeases
him. I was then to address those concerns and standby during sound check,
re-tune as per his "instruction". He has small mutes he puts near unison's
that he feels need attention. I was then to stand by during the performance
and touch-up during intermission. Of course the unison's he was unhappy with
were mostly in the 6th and 7th octave due to being beyond where they
customarily are and the bends in the wire being pulled into the speaking
length. The piano was placed beyond the curtain so my touch up was by ear in
full veiw of the audience most of whom were too busy conversing to care,
except for one man who waited until I'd finished then thanked me and shook
my hand. A few weeks later he joined our chapter! I did NOT needle the
hammers, this is a Kawai GS-60 I instead removed the stop screw from the
cheek block!

Mike
-- 
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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