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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey man, you got it! That's just what I'm
trying to do. My luck/talent is holding up well it seems. Just a
vary short touch up today on the tuning. Man this thing will test your
stability skills! I show up, smile, tune and do my best work, and cry
about it to you guys.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn Brock, RPT</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ed440@mindspring.com href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">Ed Sutton</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: World Piano competition
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn-</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aren't you looking for a job? Smile and do
your best work! Meet people and get known.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When people ask for you, by name, is when you get
to name your price. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Shawn Brock <<A
href="mailto:shawnbrock@fuse.net">shawnbrock@fuse.net</A>><BR>To:
Pianotech List <<A
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Sent: Wed, 9
Jul 2008 6:04 pm<BR>Subject: World Piano competition <BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I said the World Piano
Competition. So for anyone who might have been the technician at
this event in years past, you can laugh at me this year! I'm the
sucker, OOPS, I mean technician for this years competition. I can't
say that no one warned me about how it has played out in years past.
This year is much the same, except I got paid for my first week of
work. That's a step in the direction of improvement I would
say. For those who are lucky enough to have never come across this
event I will give you a short run down of what its like. Its a 2
week affair with the first week being devoted to juniors under the age of
16. They are all vary good and are thrilling to listen to. The
next week is the more competitive portion of this event, with everyone
battling it out on 1 S&S d. Man can they pound the hell out of a
piano! I have been lucky enough to come in each morning and find the
piano in decent shape as far as the tuning goes. My time allotment
is getting shorter how ever. When we started I could be in the hall
at 7a.m, and they wanted me off the stage by 830. Keep in mind that
was for 2 pianos which were in use for up to 10 hours. This week I
only have 1 piano to worry about. So with less worries they decided
to cut my time back. I was informed that I shouldn't inter the hall
and start before 9a.m. "Oh, and could you be off the stage by
930?" What the hell are these people thinking? Don't get me
wrong, often I can clean up/tune a piano in 30 or 40 minutes. I
would not want said piano used for a performance though. If a piano
is on pitch, I like to have about 1 hour or 75 minutes to do what I need
to do, and that is not for a 10 hour concert where the performers are
possibly some of the best new talent on the planet. So...
Guess I'l l just go and do what I can do. If the piano maintains its
stability as it has I should not have a problem. Guess I'm just
complaining on principle here... Not to mention the fact that they
cheated me out of a tuning... They don't want any of the practice
room pianos tuned. Man, these things are so badly out I don't see
how anyone could stand to play them. I had to fix a sticking key for
one of the players, did that one for free as well. Well, he needed
the note! It should be against the law for someone to bring these
people in and charge them all this money to inter a contest where
everything is so messed up! I hate the lack of accommodations for
the contestants. That bothers me more than anything. Once I
told someone that the reason I chose to pick up the guitar as a kid was
because every piano I was around was out of tune and was unplayable.
Oh, well, what do ya do?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn Brock, RPT</FONT></DIV></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_2_3f8ac9c1-cf85-46a0-b144-fc274a79e7e6 --></DIV></DIV>
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