Hi, Harumph. "Our very good friend, the brilliant pianist", Jose Feghali, has been in town rehearsing and performing Tsch. 1 with a local band. Yesterday, this worthy earned himself a place in an elite group of pianists, now four, to be exact, who have decided to "service" (without notice or permission) an instrument for which I am/have been responsible. I will not leave any one of them alone with an instrument. Those of you who know me know, of course, that I handled this situation with the kind of infinite grace, tack, and aplomb for which I am so justly known...Right. I have not started to work through whatever he was trying to do - there was not time yesterday, and today's performance was on a different instrument. There was time to tune, and nothing else. So, whatever he did, he lived with last night...seems the piano had a few noises that it had not had the day before... Just to be absolutely clear - I am more than happy to help even the most brain-dead nimrod with whatever they think they might want, so long as the instrument is not damaged or things undone. At the same time, it is precisely those folks who have a modicum of technical training who are the most dangerous. They are, in my experience, the ones the very most likely to misapprehend why a given thing might be done a given way; or, that they can (obviously) improve/repair something. When they become so ego-centric and irrational as to presume to start working on an instrument with which they have little, if any, historical relationship, without at least some notice to the responsible technician, they cross over what is for me, a line of acceptable behavior. Anyway, as we used to say in the Navy: "Don't drop the soap." Best to all. Horace ********************************************* Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office, Stanford University 651 Serra St., RM 100 Stanford, CA 94305 Voice: 650.725.9062 Fax: 650.725.8014 *********************************************
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