Elton John

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>do you know whether Elton John has a tech with him?  

Greetings, 
     He will probably not carry a tech with him.  When he played the Opry 
house here in the early eighties,  the piano was unloaded 90 minutes before 
the show, and was approx.  30 degrees.  It was so sharp, I had trouble 
hearing the beats with the fork.  
    I advised his stage manager that it oughta be left alone, but they 
lowered some big lights near it to "warm up the strings".  Then told me that 
I had to tune it, it was in the contract and if it wasn't tuned, there was no 
show.  I began, and as I went, I realized that nothing was staying where I 
put it. By show time, the thing sounded worse than any piano I had ever been 
connected with but nobody said a word.   
go figure, 
Ed Foote