Greetings all, In response to describing school performance tuning ( "Tuning in this season is a white-knuckle chore at times"), Avery writes " I had that same situation when I first came here: tune the recital hall piano(s) early, then have them beat to death all day and then a recital at night. It really lets you know quickly how solid your tunings are. " ----- Just for the school techs grins, Here is what I got tonight. A Steinway D tuned this morning, muggy "prefront weather", steadily dropping temps, from 70 to possible snow flurries by show-time. The TV crew gets there at 4:00 and sets up lights, etc, opens doors, rain begins its slow drapery over a pent-up Friday, and student recitals will stop 45 minutes before a sold out house shows up to hear their favorite, home-town Steinway artist play a solo piano recital of Pierne, ( who seems to love writing in the top two octaves). The second half is piano and violin duets. I laugh, I cry, but if I am going to be professional about this, I can't shrug, I will just keep telling myself, in those last few floodlit, single mute, minutes out there before the doors open, that Jim Coleman says "unisons", "unisons", "unisons"..................(:)}}}} Regards to all, ah Friday !........ Ed Foote
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