[pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns

[johnparham at piano88.com]

Phil,

If you do it, most likely you will be faced with a group that does a
concert every few days.  That means that the pianos will been tuned
every day or every few days; they will be very close in pitch to each
other to begin with.  

Phil's advice>>> "Relax and do the best you can."
-John Parham  

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> Subject: [pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns
> From: "Phil Frankenberg" <philfrank56 at comcast.net>
> Date: Tue, January 11, 2011 4:36 pm
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
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> In two months the 5 Browns are coming to Chico  to give a concert and open rehearsal. With them comes 5 pianos, 2S&S D's and 3 B's. I am expected to tune them all the day they arrive (the open rehearsal day) and the next day which is the day of the concert. I am a good tuner and I'm relatively quick, but there's no way I can do 5 concert tuning in 5 hours and repeat that again the next day. I'm 64 years old and comfortable with two a day and often three, but even when I was 25 I wouldn't have been able to do a good job after the first three. I assume they have done concerts all over the country and other techs have faced something similar. Any advice? Anyone want to trade places with me for a couple of days? I wish I could do it, I'd give them a whopper of a bill.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil Frankenberg
> CSUChico
> Chico, Ca.