This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment This was one of those days. A pianist from California staying in town = left a message on my answering machine last night wondering if I could = do a tuning before a sheduled memorial service at a nearby church today. = The piano was described as "lacking depth of tone" ... and it was = delivered fresh from East Lansing, about 75 miles away. What I came to was a brand new 9' Bluthner, probably fresh from the box = and given only a perfunctory tuning. What emerged was something of = unprecedented glory with only so little as a solid tuning and some = rudimentary touch-up of the voicing and regulation. I wish I had all = day for that piano, to really bring out what I could of its tone. (I = also wish I could play something that could do justice to what this = piano is capable of.) The pianist came around to do some practicing before the service, and = thanked me profusely for the work I had done. She was obviously = thoroughly enjoying it now. She started playing something that could = only be played on a 9' ... the effect of which was enough to send me = flying out of the room for a good cry. I listened from the hallway = outside of the sanctuary and tried to further imagine the effect had the = tone been opened up just a little more in the top third of the piano. = As for all those people attending the service today ... may they too = experience the passion this piano is capable of delivering at the hands = of that pianist. At this time, I don't know if the piano is here to stay (wouldn't that = be nice) or if it will be going back to East Lansing. The pianist is = here only for the weekend. She wanted my business card in the worst way = ... I could only hope to cross paths with her again somewhere. I'd love = to just hang out with her outside the constraints of a schedule, just to = learn more about what she, as an artist, looks for in a piano. I'd also = like to know how she can keep herself "pulled together" while playing = the really passionate pieces, the ones that people like me fall apart = upon hearing them. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/26/bc/49/e8/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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