<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Help.  <STRONG>:O</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Farrell<BR>Piano Tuning & Service<BR>Tampa, Florida<BR><A = href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A></DI= V></BODY></HTML>