Elton John

[David M. Porritt]

Ed:

Do you think that's what happened when he played at Princes Di's funeral?
It certainly sounded pretty ripe then!

dave

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On 5/20/00 at 2:12 PM A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

>>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




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275