Saturday 30 September 2006

Pittsburgh, 8am
Sitting up in bed in comfortable surroundings, assembling various bits of paper into a folder for tonight's concert. Most of the programme I've never played before (some of it I haven't played yet) and I've got harpsichord, harmonium, melodica, recitation and singing to juggle. No juggling though. 

I spent yesterday morning tuning Chris's Estey 1870 cottage organ with the help of this rather good piece of software. It took me 4 hours to do the single set of reeds but it's quite a satisfying job. And no, don't ask me to tune yours. It's the instrument I played at the end of Suzie LeBlanc's La mer jolie album.