Water/hammers/steam/voicing

[Jon Page]

I think GW needs to take some wind out of his sales.

I tuned for his performance here a while ago. The contract _was_humorous.
After all the hype and hoopla, the show just about put me to sleep.
I didn't stay afterwards to even see if he was 'holding court'.
If he 'graces' these shores again, I will be 'regretfully' booked that
weekend.

Fortunately his technique did not result in any broken parts.

Jon Page
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At 07:07 AM 11/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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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