Olga Kern

[Avery]

:-[ (blush, blush) Thanks, though.

Avery

P.S. The piano was moved down here from Dallas, so the prep work was 
all done there. I only had to do the tunings and voice a couple of 
notes that were sticking out a little.

At 09:38 PM 2/11/2007, you wrote:

>Olga Kern played last night at University of Houston, Moores Opera 
>House.  By some strange twist of the fates my wife and I ended up 
>third row, center- maybe 12 feet from her.  Oh my 
>gracious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I flinched a number of times 
>when she crashed into the keys with a force I've not often seen.  It 
>wasn't one of the school pianos, so had to be adapted to the 
>environment. Evidently Yamaha sent a tech to do the action work, but 
>Avery Todd did the tunings.  I have heard a very few tuners in 
>Houston whose work enters into the realm of "art", and Avery 
>certainly is one of them. I could have a ball just sitting quietly 
>at a piano he's tuned and listening to intervals and sounds and 
>balance and all that stuff.    I had to hope that some little thing 
>might go the tiniest bit out, thus proving that no piano can be 
>perfectly tuned, and after an hour and a half of incredibly powerful 
>playing the tuners in the crowd might have noted a note or two 
>struggling to slip a bit.    It was a totally "wow" kind of evening, 
>not only aesthetically in terms of music, but in having some small 
>idea of the level of intuitive work and experience required to 
>present an instrument so fabulously.    Kudos to those who can 
>regularly walk in those rarefied technical realms with confidence.
>
>les bartlett
>
>--
>No virus found in this outgoing message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.35/680 - Release Date: 
>02/10/2007 9:15 PM
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070212/5ae84e71/attachment.html