<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>If it was a video shoot, why tune it at all? Better yet, if it was Axle Rose, = why tune it at all? What difference would it make? ;)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>heh, yeah, I'm in a mood. </DIV> <DIV>-ilex</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of = Kurt Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:52 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: should I stay or should I go, = late to the topic </DIV>"I was = attending an outdoor music festival years ago, (I was going to accompany a folk = singer), and the promoters had a piano due to be delivered by the time the = headliner was going to play (Andre Crouch.) Mr. Crouch and his entourage arrived = and still no piano. A member of the audience drove his pickup home and = brought the spinet from his living room. They asked me to tune it up quickly as = start time for the performance had come and gone.     I = checked the pitch and it was almost a whole step flat. While I was on stage = starting to tune in front of a baseball field full of people, the promoters put = on a husband/wife gospel duet to perform for the crowd while I tuned 8 feet = away. I had my head stuck inside the piano within inches of the strings = concentrating hard to hear what I was doing, and a guy sat down on the bench and = said he had tuned a piano once and if it would help he would tune the the top half = of the piano while I tuned the bottom half. I told him that I was afraid that = that wouldn't help.  He decided to stay and chat while I tuned, though." Ha! Some day I may relate the time I was = called upon to tune a piano that was already AT A-440,  to be tuned DOWN = exactly a half-step flat. New Baldwin grand with ultra-tight and jumpy pins. While a helicopter was hovering 75 feet directly above my = head. Outdoors. In the desert sunshine.  While 100 = carpenters constructed a building AROUND me. For an Axel Rose (Guns n = Roses) video shoot - "November Rain". OOOPS. Guess I just related it. :-) </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>