<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>   Farrell wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Now you didn't state specifics here Richard. Was this 14 concert tunings on the same piano and he was so tired of trying techs that he decided that your tuning, the 15th, was good enough? Or did he reject 14 Dumbos before he found one that sounded good (the one you happend to tune)? Come on, fess up!</blockquote> Actually.. if you want to know the truth... the 14th piano was in Hamburg.  They'd seen him comming and were ready for him... they thought... Brand new D from Hamburg... the two best factory techs they had spent hours preping this thing... it was immmmmaculate... no doubt... Enter Keith...two techs anxiously on hand.... stage manager waggling nervously... and 3 seconds later Keith condemned the piano and refused to do the concert. The two techs were totally flabberghasted as the story goes... they couldnt hold back and thrust themselves upon him insisting to know what exactly was the matter.... after introducing themselves... Keith was a bit taken aback... and returned for another 3 second test... and decided it would do after all...but he was not a happy camper. Now to be fair... when he arrived in Molde a couple weeks later.... he was on the last leg of what evidently had been an extremely annoying trip. Molde is an unbelievably beautiful place... Alps rising over and beyond a vast fjord dotted with picturesque islands.. sun shinning brightly in the blue sky. As he stepped off the plane he is greeted by as cute a 12 year old lady as can be found this side of the undying lands.... all dressed in her national costume begging the acceptance of the 24 roses she bears in his honor. Molde is the city of Roses. After having tread the red carpet he enters the 1954 perfectly kept black Caddie limo that takes him straight to his 3 room suite on the 8th floor of the towns only big hotel... and is given anything he wants. A plane ride over the most amazing scenery western Norway has to offer... So... the next day when he comes to the 20 year old re-whatevered Hamburg D I'd just tuned... I simply couldnt loose. Same stage manager nervous as can be...same 3 second test.... but... no complaint.  All he said as he turned... not really even offering me a glance... was... S'ok. Biggest feather in my hat I ever got... but thats another story. <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  Terry Farrell <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></a> </blockquote> Good Nite Seattle !!   -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>  </html>