This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment When Tony Bennett played NE Minnesota in about "93 the contract called = for tuning "before the sound check, rehearsal, 1st and 2nd shows." Once = prior to a performance then doesn't, by comparison, seem like overkill. Roy Ulrich ----- Original Message -----=20 From: BUNKYPIANO@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 6:04 AM Subject: Re: ..stability issue.. If the pianos are played every day for an extended period of time, and = are=20 getting twangy between full tunings, why not establish a touch-up = schedule=20 daily? It will take you 5 mins for each piano daily and you can = charge=20 appropriately, a service call perhaps?=20 During the large festivals, we do a complete tuning on every piano = every day,=20 and touch-ups start as early as 5 hours later, around 1pm and continue = every=20 45 mins or so until 7pm.=20 I remember one guy by the name of Johnny Bacheman who played at a = local New=20 Orleans bar. He was a small, lightweight person who played the = hardest of=20 any person I have ever seen. I was on a daily tuning for this piano = and not=20 a day went by that he did not break at least 2 bass strings and 1 = treble. I=20 could not have played as hard as he did with a hammer....When you get = one of=20 these, you ask yourself how is it possible? =20 not to ramble, but I would suggest a daily touch-up if distance is not = prohibitive.=20 tom mc nabb=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6e/a9/1b/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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