Being called out on stage

[David Ilvedson]

Michael,

Funny about the stop screw...I did George's first couple albums at Different Fur Studios in SF a long time ago.   I tuned everyday 

before the session.  We talked about the hammer shifting farther, basically to get newer less exposed felt...I recommended turning the stop screw in as far as possible without contacting the next string...seemed prudent...nice guy.   



David Ilvedson, RPT

Pacifica, CA 94044









Original message

From: "Michael Magness" 

To: "Pianotech List" 

Received: 12/31/2007 6:46:22 PM

Subject: Re: Being called out on stage











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

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