I forgot to add that the humidity dropped a massive amount (suddenly) since Sept, and all the faculty are crying out for tuning. I also imagine the classrooms/practice rooms, etc are just as ugly. I simply have to tell them what's going on with all these performances and they'll just have to wait....their stamp, moan, whines, etc is another stress to contend with! I have learned to shrug this part off and say, "it's only me and you'll just have to make do until all this other stuff is out of the way." Time stress far outweighs the number of pianos type stress. I'm used to that now going into my 5th year here with 110 instruments in my care. Just glad to have a job!! Paul From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 10/20/2010 03:30 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] How long is too long? Yes, Susan, I get overly anxious about these things when so many other things are happening at the same time. Feltzman is at Lied next week, using all 3 of their grands...Two B's and the D over there for master classes, practice and performance. There is also the student grad and undergrad concerto competitions happening Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday-using 2 pianos tuned together each night. My favorite DMA student has a performance Tuesday eve on this new Steinway project, the same night as Feltzman. I'm not freaking out over one piano, but 6. So, I'm not stressing out about just one performance! You can understand the pressure, I'm sure. It's not as bad as our Liszt Fest last spring with our central west regional conference was happening and to top it all off, my father in law passing away all the same week, but it's close. This kind of stuff happens about twice per year. The rest of the time, I'm pretty laid back and unstressed. Paul From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 10/20/2010 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] How long is too long? On 10/20/2010 5:42 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: That would be in a perfect world! The piano is being used on Saturday. Now that fall break is over, I have until noon today, then just a couple hours on Thursday morning and Friday morning. It should work. (unless it doesn't!) Worse case scenario would be that they have to use the Baldwin D on Saturday, but it's a fine piano and these aren't piano majors performing, just accompanying. Paul Have you ever noticed that so often we tend to run on anxiety, fighting deadlines, as if something is crucial, but in retrospect, all "FAILURE" would mean was that someone would play an accompaniment on a Baldwin D which was not a bad piano either? You know, every time we stress out several days over nothing much (and I surely do that as often as anyone!) we lose a little health and longevity? Cortisol has its price. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101020/1c2adb84/attachment.htm>
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