<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 01/26/2001 10:51:46 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
<BR>A440A@AOL.COM writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">"artist" will stand up on the stage and after making sure that everyone
<BR>knows who you are, scream that you are the worst mistake he has ever seen </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>I used to tune for the Notre Dame Jazz Festival every spring. Since the music
<BR>department, at that time, did not consider jazz to fall into the category of
<BR>"music," they would not allow the festival to use one of their pianos. They
<BR>hauled an old, beat-up 7' Grinnell out of the basement of one of the dorms
<BR>and gave me a couple of hours to make it playable. It was always a challenge,
<BR>but it always came out OK (all the notes worked and were in tune, tone a
<BR>little lacking but you can't have everything) and I got to listen to a
<BR>weekend of jazz for free.
<BR>One year Keith Jarrett got up after the last set, (after I had gone home) and
<BR>waxed eloquent about what an affront to professional musicians the piano was,
<BR>that it was a piece of junk, and he wouldn't consider coming back to the
<BR>festival, etc. I heard about it the next day, with a hint that since I was
<BR>the piano tuner, I bore the ultimate responsibilty for the piano. ??
<BR>Haven't tuned there since, but the next year, they finally assented to
<BR>renting a decent piano for the festival. Oh, well.
<BR>John Stroup</FONT></HTML>