This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment For those who are not aware of it, there's a good solution for extremely = noisy environments: The Sanderson magnetic accu-pickup. Had to use a couple times because of = several- thousand-watts soundchecks. It works on PT100 too, and RCT ( Note: only when running on batteries. When using AC power, the pickup = hears the 50 Hz (de)polarisations too- resulting in 50Hz and all its = partials being present). Duncan. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Farrell=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:04 PM Subject: Concert Tuning Info Emergency 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4e/c7/5e/46/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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