Well, Joe, I've been thinking about what you had to say. I've got some questions and thoughts. How long does it take stage lighting to throw a piano off? I don't remember that being a problem at my last gig (the 600 seat place). The "hot" spot lights were only on for performances. These are hard times financially, so as a money saver, I believe the lights are on only when they have to be--as opposed to the old practice of leaving them on continuously between the rehearsal and the concert. Of course, I want stability in tuning--that's why I want the piano on stage at least a day before the performance. But, I wonder about the short term and long term effects of "cooking" the piano for a day before the concert, storing it after the concert and then having it go through that same process again. Well, I suppose I don't *really* need to worry about it, because there's no way they are going leave those lights on for 24 hours. :-) Anybody else out there willing to share their experience with this? Barbara Richmond, RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:36 PM Subject: Re: From storage to stage > Barbara asked: "It seems like it would be easiest to have a policy in place > so it = > automatically gets done and not have to make a request each time. = > Thoughts? Opinions? What do you do?" > > Barbara, > Although I do not do many concert situations, I insist the piano be on > stage, in place for at least 24 hours before the concert. Also, I like to > have ALL of the stage lights, that will be used during the concert, ON. And > left on until the "house" is opened to the public. If the venue will not do > this, then I refuse to do the work. (Period) Concert instruments are > "squirrely" enough without the added climatic problems caused by the > "administration" of such venues not knowing what the heck they're about, in > regards to THE PIANO! (hmm? please excuse the run-on sentence.<G>) > Best Regards, > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) > Captain, Tool Police > Squares Are I > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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