Barbara, Sorry I can't offer any particular sage advice -- never faced anything close to this situation before. Do let us know what you decided to do and how it works out. Only thing I can think of is to do your best and realize you ARE a good technician regardless. And keep saying "It's not my fault" as a mantra. <G> -- JF On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net>wrote: > Hi, > > > > I provide much of the tuning service for the Illinois Music Educators > Association All-State Conference--you know, one of those state-wide high > school extravaganzas . The big concert is held in the arena (ice) and the > piano has to be ready by 6 a.m. Saturday morning. In the past, the piano > was delivered on Thursday, I'd tune it on Friday afternoon and then go in > early on Saturday to do any necessary touch up. Well.....this year the > venue won't allow the piano to be delivered until noon on Friday. Crud. > This was always an easy gig--if you think tuning is easy in a very chilly > loading area that smells like garbage and has gargantuan blowers going. > Actually, it always worked out well. > > > > I believe the piano is spending the night in the truck (temp tonight 11 > degrees). I would estimate the temperature at the arena to be around 60 > degrees. > > > > I suppose I would be spinning my wheels if I tried tuning 6, 7 or 8 hours > after delivery. Please correct me if I'm wrong! Otherwise, it looks like > a 4:00 a.m. tuning Saturday morning. Bleh... > > > > Thanks for your opinions, > > > > Barbara Richmond, RPT > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090130/d9e95f99/attachment.html>
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