The London Piano Duo

Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Mon, 03 Mar 1997 10:18:13 -0700



Reminds me of a duo I tuned for years ago:

	"Russian Hands and Roman Fingers"

(It's true.)

Cash is nice.  Very nice.

Horace




>Hi John and list, you wrote:
>
>>I got a phone answering machine message to tune for "The London Piano
>>Duo" in April.  I have never heard of them, nor was I able to bring up
>>anything on a Web Search.  The names of the pianists are (something
>>like):  Richard Market(sp) and David Nessle(sp).
>
>I tuned for the London Piano Duo last year for two different concerts in
>Western Kentucky.  One in Hopkinsville, the other in Paducah.  They were
>both "community concert" type venues.
>
>They had two CD pianos with them. They had "selected" them in New York
>before starting the tour.  The pianos were OK last year. Most of the pianos
>I have seen on these tours are pretty good.  These were not as well matched
>as I would have liked but they worked.  I had a little voicing to do and
>one of them had a sostenuuto problem that took a little time.
>
>Both of the duo are nice and very easy to work with.  There names are
>Nettle and Markham.
>
>And best of all....  They paid me cash...  I like that.
>
>I was not able to attend ether concert so I don't know how good they are.
>Pound your tunings in good, I lost a couple of unisons on the first night.
>Rock solid the second...  I hardly ever loose unisons any more, must have
>been some concert.
>
>Hope this helps you.  I have misplaced my contact information on them.
>
>Yours in pianos,
>
>Scott
>
>
>Scott E. Thile, RPT
>Piano-Instrument Technician
>___________________________
>Department of Music
>Murray State University
>PO Box 9, Murray, KY 42071
>Phone:(502)762-4396,Fax:(502)762-6335
>Email: sethile@msumusik.mursuky.edu




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