Miss Hall’s School, 6.03 p.m.
Something odd is afoot at Tanglewood this morning I:
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Actually, these are merely the cannons for this evening’s performance of the William Tell overture, a part of what’s called “Tanglewood on Parade”, a rather large-ish fund raising day filled with pops-type concerts from mid afternoon through the evening. As you can see, at 7.00 a.m. things were looking rather soupy, but by 10.00 things had cleared off nicely, and it turned into a beautiful day. I spent the morning tuning in the Chamber Music hall, regulating in Maple, and working on seating and stretching the strings on a Boston 156 in the Ash space. Doing that, of course, guarantees that you’ll need a tuning, if not a pitch raise as well; I got by with some overstretching, winding up at just about 440. Since we’re a 441-type place, that means I’ll need to go over it again asap, but that’s alright as it wasn’t particularly stable after the string work anyway.
The early-morning thing seems to be working pretty well for me; I put in almost 7 hours today and was still able to cut out at 3.30 for an afternoon run prior to dinner.
In other news, the Cubs are back in 1st place, and V sounds like she’s successfully survived a big audit at her job, something for which she’s spent months preparing. I wish I could be there to celebrate with her, but we’ll have to make due over the phone. Not nearly as much fun.
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