Another tough tuning environment

[Israel Stein]

At 01:09 AM 1/16/2007, you wrote:
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>>Well, I thought I would include another short sound clip from a 
>>tough tuning location.
>>NAMM show is this week!
>>Don Mannino
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>Ah, memories! A bunch of years back

Speaking of memories...

Back when I was doing the C & A tunings for the Steinway dealer in 
Boston they used to send me out to Great Woods in Southern 
Massachusetts - an outdoor concert venue. The concerts and rehearsals 
were so tightly scheduled that often the only time available to tune 
the piano was when the cleaning crew was running three air 
compressors cleaning out the seats from the night before... Then 
there was the time that the schedule got all screwed up - and I had 
to finish tuning the piano with the Boston Pops warming up on stage.

And then there was the time I came home from a long day's work - and 
got a desperate call from a promoter doing a $1000-a-plate charity 
fundraiser at a fancy hotel. It seems that the bandleader (G-d bless 
him) was refusing to play unless the piano was tuned! I got down 
there - with the event is already in full swing and it's one of those 
affairs with two bands on either end of the ballroom -and the other 
band is already playing away at full blast, horns blaring, trumpets 
blasting, etc... The piano got tuned somehow, the show went on, the 
promoter was grateful enough to immediately engage me for the 
following year's event and I was immensely grateful to Dr. Al Sanderson...

Israel Stein