This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I had the priviledge of working for Chick Corea when he came to Detroit = a couple of years ago. He was a real gentleman with the exuberance of a = kid with a brand new toy, and very quick with a sense of humor. I got = to the hall a little early and introduced myself. He wanted to work out = a "few more" musical ideas. Finally he let me have at it with the = piano, giving me a long wishlist of things he wanted done with only 20 = minutes before the hall opened. "That's a lot of work for 20 minutes." he admitted. "Hey, it's only from one Bostonian to another," I replied. He shot me that look of pure delight. I did what I could in those 20 = minutes. He caught up with me during the break to give me a high-five. Things = only got better by the end of the concert. I only wish he would play = this area more often. He was one of the most fun people to work with. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Richard Brekne=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Chick Corea (was Karl Ulrich Schnabel) Actually I have had to opportunity to tune for Mr. Corea a number of = times over the past 20 years. At Molde Int Jazz Festival, Natt Jazz in = Bergen, and a couple non festival appearances here in town. He is = probably one of the easiest of big name stars to tune for that I have = had to attempt to please, and I have seen most of the jazz greats come = through through the years.=20 He is knows way more then the average pianist about our side of the = buisness, too the point of understanding how volitile a tuning really = is. He has an awful lot of respect for profesional pianotechs.=20 No doubt you have to make sure you do a good job to please him, but = hey....thats what they pay us the big bucks for aint it. I would be = suprised if he would be against trying EBVT, as long as he knew ahead of = time what was going on. Course if you tried pulling the wool over his = eyes, I doubt that he would appreciate it much...:)=20 Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:=20 Chick sounds like one artist who would blow his stack if I tuned the = EBVT.=20 Although I consider it to be perfectly compatible with all fixed = pitch=20 instruments such as the Vibraphone, this is one of the artists who = sounds=20 like he knows what a real ET tuning is and will kill if he doesn't = get it.=20 He's come a long way since I saw him in the little dive in Hermosa = Beach=20 California called The Lighthouse back in the late '60's where he = took it upon=20 himself to correct tuning flaws in the piano while on stage. This = is one job=20 I wouldn't take. I prefer the smiles and the "Thank you so much" 's = to the=20 hell I might possibly catch if my idea for tuning the piano were=20 misunderstood.=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin --=20 Richard Brekne=20 RPT, N.P.T.F.=20 Bergen, Norway=20 mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no=20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0c/d2/6c/e7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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