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I say: you are right, should not happen. But itīs okay to sign a contract that the tuner has to stay until the pause to check the instrument again.<BR>
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I tune somtimes for jazz concerts and my tunings usually hold for the whole concert, even when the player has a very expressive style. But for concerts my tuning style is very expressive, too. Looks more like karate than tuning :-)<BR>
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Gregor<BR>
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<BR><BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:34 +0100<BR>> From: ricb@pianostemmer.no<BR>> To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>> Subject: Being called out on stage<BR>> <BR>> If me memory serves me right... this general thread was prompted beyond <BR>> its initial couple postings by a story about Keith Jarrett being unhappy <BR>> with a tuning during the middle of a concert and demanding the piano be <BR>> touched up. Mr. Jarrett had, at least some years back, a reputation for <BR>> being rather difficult about instruments... many would have it <BR>> unreasonably so. Not wishing to take any particular position on exactly <BR>> that issue... I am still curious...<BR>> <BR>> For those who have experienced being called on stage for your own or <BR>> someone elses instrument at intermission or even in the middle of a <BR>> set... how often do you feel this has been an unreasonable action on the <BR>> part of the artist. And I mean even unreasonable in the more harmless <BR>> sense like when a pianist just wants the added assurance of the piano <BR>> being gone over during the break.<BR>> <BR>> Myself... it strikes me that under normal operating conditions a piano <BR>> should hold tuning plenty well enough during a whole concert. I suppose <BR>> by that I mean 95 % of the time at least. Being on stage after the <BR>> concert starts is something I've never had to do for any of my own <BR>> work... and I've come to view it as an undesirable. If the curtain was <BR>> down... and audience out of eye and ear range... well perhaps it might <BR>> be acceptable.... but really... it should nearly never be necessary. <BR>> Extremes of climatic conditions being about the only plausible <BR>> exception.....<BR>> <BR>> What say ye ?<BR>> <BR>> Cheers<BR>> RicB<BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/' target='_new'>MSN Messenger</a></body>
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