World Piano competition

[Don]

Hi Bruce and Shaun,

As long as technicians continue to accept vaguely impossible working
conditions nothing will change. Just Say "NO". 

At 09:22 PM 7/9/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>Boy, do I hear you. Â I've tuned for the recently established Amatuer
>Pianist International here in Colorado Springs for 5 years now. Â We have a
>nice Hamburg Steinway D for the stage. Â However, the practice rooms
> are not scheduled for any attention this summer. Â I get about an hour
>prior to the first event, and 15 minutes for lunch and other breaks to
>touch up the piano. Â Usually, a russian pianist comes in for the final
>masterclass and recital. Â Usually, a few requests for regulation
>adjustments. Â Of course, everything must come within their budgetary
>limits. Â I guess misery loves company. Â Nice to know I'm not the only one
>doing this dance. 
>   Bruce Pennington
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> Subject: World Piano competition 
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>               &S d.  Man can they pound the hell out of a piano!  I have
>been  lucky enough to come in each morning and find the piano in decent
>shape as far  as the tuning goes.  My time allotment is getting shorter
>how ever.   When we started I could be in the hall at 7a.m, and they
>wanted me off the stage  by 830.  Keep in mind that was for 2 pianos which
>were in use for up to 10  hours.  This week I only have 1 piano to worry
>about.  So with less  worries they decided to cut my time back.  I was
>informed that I shouldn't  inter the hall and start before 9a.m.  "Oh, and
>could you be off the stage  by 930?"Â  What the hell are these people
>thinking?  Don't get me  wrong, often I can clean up/tune a piano in 30 or
>40 minutes.  I would not  want said piano used for a performance though. 
>If a piano is on pitch, I  like to have about 1 hour or 75 minutes to do
>what I need to do, and that is not  for a 10 hour concert where the
>performers are possibly some of the best new  talent on the planet. 
>So...  Guess I'l l just go and do what I can  do.  If the piano maintains
>its stability as it has I should not have a  problem.  Guess I'm just
>complaining on principle here...  Not to  mention the fact that they
>cheated me out of a tuning...  They don't want  any of the practice room
>pianos tuned.  Man, these things are so badly out  I don't see how anyone
>could stand to play them.  I had to fix a sticking  key for one of the
>players, did that one for free as well.  Well, he needed  the note!  It
>should be against the law for someone to bring these people  in and charge
>them all this money to inter a contest where everything is so  messed up! 
>I hate the lack of accommodations for the contestants.   That bothers me
>more than anything.  Once I told someone that the reason I  chose to pick
>up the guitar as a kid was because every piano I was around was  out of
>tune and was unplayable.  Oh, well, what do ya do?       Shawn Brock, RPT
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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