Did you also catch the newest story that during the inauguration what you were listening to was actually recorded-remember Milli Vanilli? They apparently felt that the piano would not stay in tune below 55 degrees. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of paul bruesch Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:38 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] tuning cold pianos (for Inauguration) >From my musician sister... <snip> did you happen to catch the interview with Yo-Yo Ma on All Things Considered this eve? Apparently the string players soaped their bow hair,the piano tech uncoupled the key action from the strings ... and the clarinetist, one assumes, didn't blow. </snip> Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft <AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> wrote: OK, further info. It's been released. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html?_r=1&hp> &hp Al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090123/314a08f7/attachment.html>
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