At 12:30 PM 3/16/2007 -0600, you wrote: >Dennis, that is excellent advice. The once I tuned for him is was a >very similar experience. He was graciously appreciative of all that >I did for him, and not the least negative about what the piano, or >my dealing with it, lacked. >tim geinert > >----- Original Message ----- From: "johnsond" <johnsond at stolaf.edu> >To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> >Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:08 PM >Subject: Re: [CAUT] False Beats and George Winston > > >>For whatever it is worth, when I tuned for him several years ago >>there was one note he didn't like (D5, I believe) just above the >>strut that also suffered the subtle false beating. At the time >>there really wasn't much I could do, and he accepted that >>graciously without issue. I remember the concert and whole >>experience as one of my more fun jobs, and the piano was not tuned >>in ET. So- do your best, try those suggestions, and it will be fine. >> >> >>Dennis Johnson >>St. Olaf College My experience with him is getting old/stale, but my impression is that you should not feel intimidated by him and his demands (how many page tech rider??) A good solid tuning on a well regulated instrument is all he needs. I base this on the fact that, even though I remember a full page of individual tuning offsets in that pile of tech rider pages, it was before I had an ETD. I did my normal ET, explained that that page looked like Sanskrit to me and he was fine with it. Enjoy the concert, you'll have earned it. Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
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