A popular lady singer with a lot of gospel to it toured the Netherlands. For once I had an opportunity to do well on the piano for a fine world-class singer/pianoplayer. A pianoplayer with respect for sound.......After 50 minutes of intense hard work, I enjoyed the good job the tuner before me had done on last nights performance (the instrument travelled along) and I hoped my eager efforts (and I really did go for it) would contribute even more to the joyful celebration we were looking forward to.............Then: it came to my consiousness that there was no microphone near the piano. Nothing underneath either. No pickups. But a silent-system there was......... A sound of silence. John Meulendijks Tilburg the Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: PTG <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 11:09 PM Subject: Dee Dee Bridgewater > Dee Dee Bridgewater was in town tonite and I got the call to do > the piano. A beautifull well kept never been moved from its first > home Hamburg D. Great fun. Its been a while since I have done a > real concert job now. "Real" meaning a full blown concert hall > with a well behaved audience. It was kinda nice being on stage > again if you get my meaning. Thats how it always feels to me > anyways... when the tuning counts... everyone can hear and gives > a damn. > > She had a hot trio (french me thinks) with her. In particular the > pianist / hammond organ player was dynamite. This fellow had some > moves that will just plain blow any jazz enthusiast away. And he > had some really cute tricks as well. He actually had the grand > sounding like a banjo for a short stint in a song where the > affect fit just right. > > Towards the end of the nite the inevitable "piano tuners > nightmare" song came up. You know the nice slow melodic one that > features the piano player with beautiful long sounding single > tones..... after an hour of banging away. Piano held up well and > I was tickled pink of course. All in all a wonderfull nite. You > gotta catch this ladies act. > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no > >
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