<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=0 leftMar= gin=0 topMargin=0 rightMargin=0> <DIV id=role_body style="PADDING-RIGHT: 7px; PADDING-LEFT: 7px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; PADDING-BOT= TOM: 7px; WIDTH: 100%; COLOR: #000000; PADDING-TOP: 7px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;= HEIGHT: auto"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 12/14/2003 4:55:37 PM US Eastern Standard Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Did one of my rather infrequent concert t= unings today (dude called me yesterday). Anyone ever heard of a christian rock ba= nd (I assume it's rock-type stuff) called Jars of Clay? I had not.</FONT></DI= V> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These dudes had some serious equipment on= stage - place was a large church - but their equipment looked more appropriate for= a stadium. Anyway, the piano. About a 1958 Sorry & Cluck console.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>    I tuned for them a last summer, and am familar = with the band's music. It is an acoustic/electric blend. The music is fairly melo= dic, heavy on nice vocal harmonies, but can get pretty loud and hard when the mus= ic calls for it. The keyboard player uses digital keyboards, mainly, but for a couple of songs that particular piano sound (not too great, but like a livin= g room practice piano), is the sound that they want. I don't know of any touri= ng group that carts around a grand, and not very many that trust the local venu= e to have a decent grand available for "rock" groups.</DIV> <DIV>    Your problem was with the local promoter who ha= d the contract calling for a tuner for at least a couple of months and didn't bother to arrange it. Typically, Contemporary Christian bands are not flush = with money. It is all tied up in equipment. Jars of Clay might be better off than= most, but this was still the fault of the promoter, not the band.</DIV> <DIV>    John Stroup</DIV> <DIV>    South Bend, Ind.</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>