[pianotech] Tuning lever --Shameless self promotion

[Susan Kline]

At 09:20 PM 6/21/2010, you wrote:
>Hi Susan,
>
>Do you use it to get into concerts where you aren't tuning? ;)
>
>Alastair,
>David Lawson's Pianos
>Wangaratta
>Australia

<GRIN> I suppose it would be possible, especially places where they 
are used to me just walking in. But <blush> I take very little 
interest in concerts where I can't hear my own tuning. Spoiled, 
spoiled rotten. Vanity rocks!

SHAMELESS PLUG COMING UP! :::: (plus, I left another on Amazon.)

Speaking of vanity, for the first (and maybe only?) time in my life, 
a CD was just issued which I tuned for. What's more, it used the same 
"project" Baldwin SD-10 which I wrote about in my article 
("Freshening Strings") which was in the Journal sometime in distant 
prehistory (June 2000.) This recording effort seemed like it had just 
dropped dead at birth, but then ten years later the audio engineer 
told me that it was about to be issued. He even got data about me and 
the piano to put in the credits.

Like a proud parent, I listened to my work from ten years ago, and 
..... (vanity rules!)
Too bad it didn't come out back then, which was almost when I wrote 
the article. It might have served as an illustration. (Maybe she 
wasn't crazy after all?) What I did back then greatly improved the 
rendering in the treble, so it no longer was an exercise in 
frustration trying to tune rock-solid unisons. Plus, it also toned 
down the capo "jangles" so a voicing was possible, but didn't leave 
the treble gutless. No little pieces of gaffers tape or folds of 
bushing cloth in the front duplex were required.

And, (laying aside my own conceit), David Ogden Stiers did a 
magnificent job of the narration, the pianist he brought up (Chie 
Nagatani) was superb --- always pick a fine pianist to play on your 
work, people ... well, the cellist and the composer/arranger weren't 
half bad either. And they've done up the CD really nicely. If I were 
a kid, I think I'd enjoy listening to it ... and adults will enjoy it 
too, I think.

One can get just a hint from the streaming audio, but one needs real 
speakers and the CD to get the full effect.

http://www.northpacificmusic.com/032/Ferdinand_NPM_032.html

sssssssssssnnn

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:skline at peak.org>Susan Kline
>To: <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>pianotech at ptg.org
>Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning lever --Shameless self promotion
>
>I keep my lever pulled out very far, and so the head sticks out of 
>the laptop-sized bag I use for my everyday kit. I think of this as a 
>benefit. Anyone looking in the car will see it hanging out there, 
>and not assume that there's a laptop to rip off in there. And if I 
>want to put it in my purse for a concert, I can just grab and head 
>and pull, without having to open the kit. It hangs out of my purse 
>as well -- in that case, it is my free admission pass.
>
>Susan
>---------------------------------
>Susan ,
>I think he's talking about his tuning bag , not travel bag
>
>>11 1/2 inch long at the most will fit in my bag, but I usually 
>>extend it to 13 inch on uprights.
>>
>>
>>Mail it home. Also keeps it from alarming the homeland security people.
>>Susan
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