At 01:09 AM 1/16/2007, you wrote: >Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> >Message-ID: <45AC680C.6040306 at cox.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Subject: Re: Another Tough Tuning Environment >Message: 6 > > >>Well, I thought I would include another short sound clip from a >>tough tuning location. >>NAMM show is this week! >>Don Mannino > > >Ah, memories! A bunch of years back Speaking of memories... Back when I was doing the C & A tunings for the Steinway dealer in Boston they used to send me out to Great Woods in Southern Massachusetts - an outdoor concert venue. The concerts and rehearsals were so tightly scheduled that often the only time available to tune the piano was when the cleaning crew was running three air compressors cleaning out the seats from the night before... Then there was the time that the schedule got all screwed up - and I had to finish tuning the piano with the Boston Pops warming up on stage. And then there was the time I came home from a long day's work - and got a desperate call from a promoter doing a $1000-a-plate charity fundraiser at a fancy hotel. It seems that the bandleader (G-d bless him) was refusing to play unless the piano was tuned! I got down there - with the event is already in full swing and it's one of those affairs with two bands on either end of the ballroom -and the other band is already playing away at full blast, horns blaring, trumpets blasting, etc... The piano got tuned somehow, the show went on, the promoter was grateful enough to immediately engage me for the following year's event and I was immensely grateful to Dr. Al Sanderson... Israel Stein
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