---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment All things considering... I would say to just get the job done fast and as best you can and above all .... dont freak out. After doing a lot of concert work... you just look at it as another job... you gotta make it sound good. Thats the job. Farrell wrote: > I enjoy new challenges. Usually. Which is good, because I have just > made my tuning services available for my very FIRST concert tuning (5 > minutes ago). Tomorrow. I know how to tune a piano for Mrs. Smith down > the street, but ANYTHING having to do with a concert situation will be > new to me (and admittedly, anything to do with a professional pianist). > > > > I am to tune for Richard Mark (my info is he is a pop pianist - anyone > know who this dude is?) tomorrow at noon at the Gasparilla Festival in > Tampa, FL. I guess this is Tampa's stab at Mardi Gras. It is your > basic get drunk and flash boobs event. Anyway, it is an outdoor stage > and I was told I would have an hour to tune. Why am I not comfortable > with that? I usually take at least an hour to tune. > > > > Any general advice from you old pros regarding tuning specifics (any > special style or anything, like lots of stretch, etc.) and just > general considerations for outdoor concert tuning at a festival? > Especially, any advice from SAT users - as I do the FAC thing with my > SAT III. The piano is a rented Yamaha C3 that supposedly was tuned > prior to leaving the rental company in Miami. Anything specifically > unusual with this particular piano model? There are two tunings. The > first at noon, and then one around 5 PM for an evening performance. > > > > I have this feeling of stepping into a black abyss. Every time I have > done that in the past, I have come up in pretty good shape. But there > is always a first time it may not happen that way. I'm charging double > my usual tuning fee for each tuning. Is that normal? > > > > Help. :O > > > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com <mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/88/aa/5e/0d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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