[CAUT] Neckties R us

[Edward Sambell]

I call that going beyond the call of duty, and kudos to Jim.. I can think of two 
more. The first was when one of my graduates was involved in a recording. The 
pianist was being distracted by a persistent fly, and getting very upset. So our 
hero went out and bought six sticky fly papers and hung them around the piano 
lid. The fly was caught and all then went well. The second one was told me by my 
friend Henri Kneifel. Years ago he had to prepare the piano for Horowitz in 
Ottowa. When Horowitz arrived he complained that the piano was not level, due to 
a sloping stage. so Henri found a hardware store and bought a level. He checked 
the piano, and sure enough, Horowitz was right, The piano was duly righted and 
all was well. We do get some remarkable challenges, and it is so good when one 
can rise to the occasion.

Ted Sambell




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From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: "caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 11:13:32 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us

  
Ooops…
 
Delete that everyone. Ssshhhhhh….(!!!)
 
J
 
From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Busby
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:12 AM
To: Ed Sutton; caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
 
Ed,
 
This was the Lincoln Center folks. Tops dogs. Wu Han was the pianist and this 
cellist was 24 years old. I didn’t want to offend him by printing names.
 
Fwiw.
 
J
 
 
From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Sutton
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:33 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
>From:Jim Busby 
>To:caut at ptg.org 
>Sent:Monday, January 24, 2011 10:30 PM
>Subject:[CAUT] Neckties R us
> 
>All,
> 
>A short while ago (I won’t mention when nor whom) a world famous quartet 
>performed here and I tuned the piano. About 5 minutes before the house opened 
>one of the performers came up to me with a rather frantic sounding plight “I 
>forgot my tie! Please, do you have one?” “I’ll get you one” I told him.
> 
>Now think. What would you do?
> 
>I went out the door and standing in line was a very well dressed young man and 
>his date. I spoke quietly so others couldn’t hear “Excuse me, but the performer 
>just realized that he doesn’t have a tie. How about loaning him yours?” The 
>fellow smiled and said “Sure. Here!” I could tell he saw the humor in it. The 
>cute girl with him giggled and squeezed his arm.
> 
>In the Green room I handed him the tie. He asked in his fairly good English “Do 
>you know how to tie it?”. “Sure.” I tied it, helped him straighten out his 
>collar, etc. then I smiled and told him “You’re just like my son, only younger.” 
>He grinned big, held my eyes for a moment, then went on stage.
> 
>With all the tension that comes with along tuning for world famous artists 
>sometimes moments like this help me relax and enjoy the human side of things.
> 
>Jim Busby
>Gray haired CAUT

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