lacquer solutions and airline travel

[Tom Servinsky]

David,
MAN O MAN, I don't get this type of good treatment in my own house. Only
kidding!
I'm glad you too have experienced the "next level" in tuning. Just when you
think you have it all figured out the light bulb goes off and your looking
at things from an entire different perspective.
I remember in music school going back and re-studying many of the pieces I
had prepared and learned years prior. All of a sudden, due to being much
more mature and understanding, I realize I don't know this piece at all.  At
any give point it's all relative.
This perspective and understanding is what has propelled me through this
business. Always realizing that you are never really "there", but you are
always on the way. As someone wise said..."it's not a destination, but the
journey which should be the goal".
Anyhow, yes Steve Edwards...good guy. We are to hook up in LA. Want to join
us?
We were to be playing at UCLA Royce Hall on Sept. 7th, but that venue has
been changed to a different location. Watch the papers for the Sakamoto
concert in LA. We will be arriving from San Francisco that morning (9/7/02)
and then I have catch a red eye at 12:30 that night to be in Chicago by
5:00AM to get a head start at the House of Blues. This whole tour is one
cool place after another.
Tom Servinsky, RPT
The time in LA will be limited but worthwhile nonetheless.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Andersen" <bigda@gte.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: lacquer solutions and airline travel


> >I have been thoroughly talked out of trying to smuggle lacquer on this
trip.
> >It's just not worth the hassle.
> Good thinking.
> >Your alternative solutions, though, are worth keeping in mind. I never
> >thought about nail polish and nail remover...basically similar stuff with
a
> >different name.
> Necessity........invention.
> >Anyhow it's Bon Voyage as of this coming Saturday. Tour raps up Oct. 15.
> >Talk to y'all when I return.
> >Tom Servinsky, RPT
>
> Tom......Thank you from the bottom of my heart for challenging me to go
> "old school," to tune with just a hammer and a mute.  I've done 3
> tunings:  a new C7, a big upright Samick, and a 12-year old C6.
>
> Dude.  This is the natural progression for me.  I love tuning this
> way.....it's so final, so serious, so precise.  Another way to demand
> more of my ears, of my hands, of my innate musical sense.
> I can't thank you enough for inspiring me to go all the way into Virgil's
> protocol.  I tried it once or twice 4 years ago after I saw Virgil at an
> all-day class in LA,  but I wasn't ready for it.  I had to learn how to
> trust the fourths completely.  Now I'm ready, and the feedback on these 3
> pianos from the players has been luminous----and I LOVE the sound and
> feel of it, which is most important.....  :---)
>
> And now, an amazing "coincidence" that is, IMHO, no such thing.  I was
> talking to my  good friend Steve Edwards this AM.  I've been maintaining
> and restoring his Steinways for years, and we've become pretty close; at
> the end of our conversation, he mentioned that he had somebody he wanted
> me to meet in a month---the guy who does his Mom's piano in Florida:  Tom
> Servinsky.
>
> You can imagine my incredulity.
>
> I'll see you in a month, and I'll buy you the best dinner I can
> afford..........Thanks again.
> You've given me a lot in a short time.....David A