Nightmare tuning

[Avery Todd]

Ed,

   It's Saturday and I just now read you message. Just out of curiosity,
how did everything go? Fine, I'm sure. Thankfully, I haven't had that type
of problem in a long time.

Regards,
Avery

>     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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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
713-743-3226
atodd@uh.edu
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