[pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns

[Tom Servinsky]

Re: [pianotech] My Dillema: 5 BrownsI've done the 5 Browns gig about 15 times. My advice....get a good night's sleep, have a hearty breakfast, and then go for it.
Stay focused and spend the most care of the 2 D's, as those are used for almost the whole show. The will do some solo pieces, but they do a considerable amount of emphasis on the 2 piano arrangements.
These instruments have been constantly tweaked by previous techs so they should be in pretty good shape. However one year I was the proud recipient of a whole new batch of 3 A's and 2 B's right from the factory. 
 Lot's of loose ends to deal with and an abbreviated amount of time.
Enjoy the ride!
Tom Servinsky
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ralinovsky, Jonathan Mr. 
  To: pianotech 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns


  Hi Phil,
  The Browns played here a few years ago and I tuned their pianos for them. I’m a bit younger than you, but I got through them without too much trouble. The pianos have already been tuned at the previous concert, so it’s not that you’ll have to complete major pitch corrections. Cruise through and make it stable, what else can they ask for? 

  I’d be happy to come out to Chico to help, but I’m sure there are other qualified techs who are closer.

  Respectfully,
  Jon

  Jon Ralinovsky
  Piano Technician
  Department of Music
  Miami University
  513/529-6548



  On 1/11/11 4:36 PM, "Phil Frankenberg" <philfrank56 at comcast.net> wrote:


    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.

     

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