[CAUT] Fund raising piano question! ASAP!!

[Paul T Williams]

Wim,

That's exactly what I'm going to do.  I already warned her of what I might 
find.  She said go ahead and tune it and then tell her what it is...

It's not my gig, or even a school of music gig, so I'm not involved any 
more than what is now finished.

Paul





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Paul

Tell your story to the person in charge of the event. Let someone else 
make this decision. 

Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org
Sent: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 9:15 am
Subject: [CAUT] Fund raising piano question! ASAP!!


Hi David and all. 

I just had the misfortune to tune a 1933 Whitney (Kimball) grand for a 
huge fund raiser for our local Lied Center for the Fine and Performing 
Arts in a very nice home here in town.  There is to be a guest artist...a 
fine pianist from Brazil, who will be playing.."something" for 15 minutes 
prior to dinner served at a promenent home in town next Friday.  I went to 
tune it on Tuesday...and it's a Whitney/Kimball 4"10" grand from 1933!!  I 
tuned it only.....it holds a tune, but was refinished and "rebuilt" by one 
of those people here who should never get near a piano...new nickle-plated 
tuning pins (for looks only) and the paint-job on the plate that surely 
shows the overspray on the plate ruining the strings....you've all seen 
that, Im' sure..The regulation had never been done for probably more years 
than I can count....(I'm a musician....so beyond 11...it's difficult! <G> 
) 

Here's the question;  Should the Lied Center bring in another piano for 
the event, or just tell the guest artist to just "grin and bear it" for 
the 15 minutes he's going to play prior to the sit-down dinner, fully 
catered, in order to fund lots of money for the Lied Center to continue 
operating?  (This venue is in a lot of hurt, financially!!) 

Thanks for advise... 

Paul 

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