<html><head></head><body>All things considering... I would say to just get
the job done fast and as best you can and above all .... dont freak out.
After doing a lot of concert work... you just look at it as another job...
you gotta make it sound good. Thats the job. <br>
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Farrell wrote:<br>
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<div>I enjoy new challenges. Usually. Which is good, because I have just made my
tuning services available for my very FIRST concert tuning (5 minutes ago).
Tomorrow. I know how to tune a piano for Mrs. Smith down the street, but
ANYTHING having to do with a concert situation will be new to me (and
admittedly, anything to do with a professional pianist).</div>
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<div>I am to tune for Richard Mark (my info is he is a pop pianist - anyone know
who this dude is?) tomorrow at noon at the Gasparilla Festival in Tampa, FL. I
guess this is Tampa's stab at Mardi Gras. It is your basic get drunk and flash
boobs event. Anyway, it is an outdoor stage and I was told I would have an hour
to tune. Why am I not comfortable with that? I usually take at least an hour to
tune.</div>
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<div>Any general advice from you old pros regarding tuning specifics (any
special style or anything, like lots of stretch, etc.) and just general
considerations for outdoor concert tuning at a festival? Especially, any advice
from SAT users - as I do the FAC thing with my SAT III. The piano is a
rented Yamaha C3 that supposedly was tuned prior to leaving the rental company
in Miami. Anything specifically unusual with this particular piano model?
There are two tunings. The first at noon, and then one around 5 PM for an
evening performance.</div>
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<div>I have this feeling of stepping into a black abyss. Every time I have done
that in the past, I have come up in pretty good shape. But there is always
a first time it may not happen that way. I'm charging double my usual tuning fee
for each tuning. Is that normal?</div>
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<div>Help. <strong>:O</strong></div>
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<div>Terry Farrell<br>Piano Tuning & Service<br>Tampa, Florida<br><a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a></div>
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Bergen, Norway
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