<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Wim-</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Why not ask the performers?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed Sutton</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@aol.com = href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 01, 2003 = 4:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> It's Alive!!!!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>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. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any advice will be greatly appreciated. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim</DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" = FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Willem Blees, RPT<BR>Piano tuner/technician<BR>School of Music<BR>University = of Alabama<BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>