Elton John

[Dave Hall]

At 02:12 PM 05/20/2000 EDT, you wrote:
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>>do you know whether Elton John has a tech with him?  
>
>Greetings, 
>     He will probably not carry a tech with him.  When he played the Opry 
>house here in the early eighties,  the piano was unloaded 90 minutes before 
>the show, and was approx.  30 degrees.  It was so sharp, I had trouble 
>hearing the beats with the fork.  
>    I advised his stage manager that it oughta be left alone, but they 
>lowered some big lights near it to "warm up the strings".  Then told me that 
>I had to tune it, it was in the contract and if it wasn't tuned, there was no 
>show.  I began, and as I went, I realized that nothing was staying where I 
>put it. By show time, the thing sounded worse than any piano I had ever been 
>connected with but nobody said a word.   
>go figure, 
>Ed Foote  
>
>
It's probably because it takes a real musician to know if the piano is
not in tune.  

Dave