This reminds me of the time I was looking for a tuner when Arthur Rubinstein came to town. Luckily, a fantastic Russian Piano technician named Vladimir Oppornockaty was in town and was able to tune the piano brilliantly! The concert went off on time and the piano sounded beautiful! Since Mr. Rubinstein had second show the following night, I asked Vladimir if he could tune again. He flat out refused me. I begged and pleaded, all to no avail. He just wouldn't do it. I finally asked him why... He said, "Don't you know, Oppornockaty only tunes once!" (Sorry, I just couldn't resist!) :-) Regards, Rob McCall Murrieta, CA On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:57 , Gerald Groot wrote: > Keith, > > Good story! As I was reading your story, I was reminded of the > Russian Couple, a man and wife that flew in to do more than one > concert at the same location. I had to tune our Bosendorfer 9' for > one of them and our Steinway D for the other and of course, tune > them together. I tuned them 8 different times in 2 days for this > couple, rehersals and all. > > Prior to the last concert, I was told that they wanted to meet me. > I thought, uh ohhhhh……… When I got on stage, they were practicing > but when one of them saw me, they both stopped playing immediately > and walked over to me with smiling faces. They were the nicest > couple. All they wanted to do was thank me for putting those two > pianos in such nice tune together for them. They thanked me for my > time, my efforts and thanked me 3 or 4 times more after that. That > really made my week complete!!! > > Jer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090628/5964f203/attachment.htm>
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