Hmmm, could it have been Tesh's own instrument suffering the rigors of being a traveling piano? That concept of tone is a big issue. Come on, don't you all know that tone which is bright enough to shave with is superior?!! (cough, choke, wheeze) ;-) Or, perhaps the piano sounded fine to the stage manager. It happens. I remember having a discussion with the person in charge, after I learned that a piano had been used for a concert without being worked on........... It turned out OK, but it was hair raising on my part when I heard about it. Barbara Richmond, RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: Re: john tesh concert > At 11:22 AM 8/24/2005 -0400, you wrote: >>Any way the piano part of this post is that the part of the concert that >>was teeth grinding was the Yamaha Piano that was grossly out of tune >>unison / every thing & from it's horrendous tonal properties, it >>remarkably replicated the sound of shattering glass. WoW!! I was sure >>strings would be flying out of the piano , shooting right thru the closed >>lid at any moment. No, it wasn't just bad miking ,all though this can >>contribute. >>Surely this is not a Yamaha concert fleet instrument. >>I know the tuner/techs in this area & I didn't hear that any had calls to >>tune this beast that day. > Well, Dale, > > I understand by what are saying that you are paying Mr Tesh a very high > compliment! ? ;-} > > It sounds as though he made as much lemonade as possible out of the lemon > he was presented with. > > One can only hope that there was a printed review which bemoaned the > poor condition of the instrument and the consummate professionalism of Mr > Tesh to overcome the piano. > > Isn't there as show biz expression, "the show must go on" ? > > > > > Conrad Hoffsommer > I tried to get a life once but they were all out of stock. > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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