Within the past week, my administrators have confirmed that we do not provide concert standby. Generally speaking, we have more than one piano in the halls, so if there is a disaster, the worst that would happen would be continuing the concert on a different piano. Hasn't happened yet to my knowledge. And by the way, even when I have happened to attend concerts, I have never provided touchups at intermission. My thoughts are that the general level of tuning is better than in times past, and our tunings can withstand a day or so of playing, within reasonable limits and tolerances. In his recent article, Robert Weirich remarks on the passing of the one recital/one tuning norm. Our halls are simply too busy to tune for every recital, too busy to prohibit rehearsals on pianos between the tuning and recital. Weirich sees this as a budget issue, but as I mention above, I think that our tunings are generally better than they were 40 years ago, so we have chosen to forego some tunings in the halls before choosing cuts in other areas. Kent On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Dr. Henry Nicolaides wrote: > Hi list...I was wondering about policy regarding the piano technician presence at/during recitals. It does not appear that we, at SIU, have a written guideline or policy. I prep and tune before the solo piano recitals and tune within a reasonable time (whatever that happens to be and considering the use of the piano and recital hall) before accompanied voice and instrumental recitals. Just wondering if anyone was "required" to be present during any recitals to be available should the unthinkable happen. > > Henry Nicolaides > Piano Technician, School of Music > Southern Illinois University > > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Learn More. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100328/ee0e9386/attachment.htm>
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