Hi David, I occasionally tune or work on a piano at night that is difficult to get to during the day. Especially if it's going to take several hours. I have considered taking off during the day and coming in about 3 or 4 PM and working until midnight, or whenever, because it's so much easier to get to the studio and classroom pianos. Also, that's early enough to take care of any administrative type of work that needs to be done during regular office hours. Brian DeTar told me recently that he didn't need much sleep so he used to go into the university where he worked at the time about midnight and stay until 7 AM or so. If your body can make the adjustment, I can definitely see some advantages to doing it one of these ways, especially if you have to get a lot of pianos tuned fairly quickly. Of course, it also helps if you're single. :-) Avery > I would like to know how many of the full time institutional >technicians depend on nighttime access to pianos (either for yourselves or >your staff) in order to accomplish the required maintenance. If so, >please give some details. Thanks >----------------------------------------- >David Skolnik >Manhattan School Of Music >dskolnik@earthlink.net >212-749-2802 Ext. 455 _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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