What's the matter, you can't tune a newly strung D in 20 minutes J. Complain, complain. Welcome to the club. In those situations I always very politely go to the pianist (after they've played awhile and can tell if it needs tuning) and say something to the effect of "I need about x amount of time with the piano before the doors open at 7:00. If you find that it's fine the way it is then please practice as long as you like but if not then I'll need to get on it by x:xx. I'm sorry but I was expecting you a bit earlier." The thought that the piano will go untuned before the concert usually convinces them that if they don't know the piece by now and extra 30 minutes of practicing probably won't help. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com _____ To: caut at ptg.org From: pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:18:11 -0600 Subject: [CAUT] Warning to you hosting the Van Cliburn gold medalist Hi all, Tonight, the Van Cliburn gold medalist is playing. He blew off the afternoon practice and showed up at 4:30 instead of 3:30 to warm up. He is supposed to go until 6:30 with a half hour to tune before the doors open at 7pm. I'm not a happy camper. He gets what he gets!! a two hour program with many major pieces each half. I will have the great opportunity to tune during the intermission. (a joke). This piano has just been freshly restrung and is not stable at all. Why do so many great pianists have no @#$% clue about their instrument?? for any of you hosting Mr. Khang, please tell him something resembling a clue on piano prep time. I was caught totally off guard on this one. Can you tell I'm pissed off?? Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100302/164408ab/attachment-0001.htm>
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