LA Olympics

[David ilvedson]

I believe this was Kimball's big swan song...

David ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA

> Date:          Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:29:30 -0700
> From:          Robert Goodale <Robert.Goodale@NAU.EDU>
> Subject:       Re: LA Olympics
> To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> Organization:  Northern Arizona University
> Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org

> > 
> > ...Ray Reuter said, "84 grands, we still had to final-tune them.  To do
> > that, five tuners from the Los Angeles area who I had worked with before
> > were hired: Teri Powell, Bob Cloutier, Mark Wisner, Alan Slater and Emily
> > Goya".
> > 
> > Keith McGavern
> 
> Do you realize that this comes to about 21,000 tuning pins? How long
> prior to the performance where these pianos tuned? Any idea what
> brand/model(s) these were? Where they all together in one big "piano
> band", (imagine if they had to march), or where these for seperate
> events?
> 
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> 
>