This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wim- Why not ask the performers? Ed Sutton ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: It's Alive!!!! Well, actually, it's dead. At least that is what Olga Kern told me = last week. She was here to give a recital. I prepped our new D, and put = it in the middle of the stage. At 6:30 I stopped by to see if there was = anything she needed. She said, "This piano is dead." I said it was only = a year old, and had probably only been played about a dozen times. She = said, it sounded like it. I should have kept my mouth shut, but I = offered her our 14 year D, which was sittting off stage. After playing = just 3 chords, she said she wanted to play the recital on that piano, = but only after warming up on it. I had 15 minutes to tune it before the = doors opened. Unfortunately, by the end of the fist half, there were = several notes that didn't make it.=20 But that is not what I'm here to complain about. Olga was not the = first pianist to complain about the new piano. Last March Misha Dichter = had the same complaint. (but at least he gave me 2 hours to prep the = older piano). My question is, how do I put more "life" into a new piano? = As I said, the piano only comes out of it's hiding place for special = occasions. (No, sun down is not a special occasion here in Alabama, = especially not on Sundays.) Since we got the piano in August of last = year, there have been about 12 performances on it. The piano is voiced, = regulated, etc., so I don't quite understand when a performer says there = is no life in the piano. Not even our piano faculty agrees with that, = although they do think the piano is a little stiffer than the older one. = Any advice will be greatly appreciated.=20 Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano tuner/technician School of Music University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/44/31/0e/7d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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