Thanks Keith, Del, Gina, Roger, Ed, for your help regarding voicing requests by visiting artists. I remember tuning at Berklee in Boston for George Winston. He had sent a 12 page contract describing how the piano was to be tuned. I remember it even spelled out that "...in the temperment, F should beat against A at 7 beats per second..." It was quite a lot of fun for all the techs to read. It also specified that "...the hammers should be 'voiced' with the right side(treble) hard, and the left side soft...", so as to create an even more dramatic effect when using the shift pedal. I wondered at the time if we should tune only the white notes, or the whole piano ;) The punchline was that I never had time to get in there and change the voicing. I did the tuning before he came to rehearse the night before, and his representative called our office the next day to say he was very happy with the piano! Who'da thunk it? Brad Smith, RPT Manchester, NH
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