World Piano competition

[Avery Todd]

Plus maybe try to get it changed for the next year. <grin>

Avery Todd

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Shawn Brock <shawnbrock at fuse.net> wrote:

>  Hey man, you got it!  That's just what I'm trying to do.  My luck/talent
> is holding up well it seems.  Just a vary short touch up today on the
> tuning.  Man this thing will test your stability skills!  I show up, smile,
> tune and do my best work, and cry about it to you guys.
>
> Shawn Brock, RPT
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>
> *To:* Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>  *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: World Piano competition
>
>   Shawn-
>
> Aren't you looking for a job? Smile and do your best work! Meet people and
> get known.
> When people ask for you, by name, is when you get to name your price.
>
> Ed Sutton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Brock <shawnbrock at fuse.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 6:04 pm
> Subject: World Piano competition
>
>  Yes, I said the World Piano Competition.  So for anyone who might have
> been the technician at this event in years past, you can laugh at me this
> year!  I'm the sucker, OOPS, I mean technician for this years competition.
> I can't say that no one warned me about how it has played out in years
> past.  This year is much the same, except I got paid for my first week of
> work.  That's a step in the direction of improvement I would say.  For those
> who are lucky enough to have never come across this event I will give you a
> short run down of what its like.  Its a 2 week affair with the first week
> being devoted to juniors under the age of 16.  They are all vary good and
> are thrilling to listen to.  The next week is the more competitive portion
> of this event, with everyone battling it out on 1 S&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?"  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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