Ah, where to begin. But my latest really deserves a prize. I played a gig as a sideman for a singer who was doing a mini-concert at a huge (1000+ seat) church. Everything went fine until a guest pianist (pre-planned and rehearsed) joined us for one song. The piano was exquistely maintained and perfectly tuned (we knew this from a rehearsal at the church three days pryor), however as soon as we started to play, I knew something was wrong, as my C1 was just enough out of tune with the piano as to be throughly annoying and ruined the one 'highlight' tune. Sometime during the last few days (at home in my studio), I had accidently changed the micro-tuning from A440 to A437 without realizing it. I didn't catch it because it wasn't something I'd normally do and I rarely play the C1 with anything other than drums at home. Played the rest of the set without changing anything because it didn't occur to me what the problem was (not that it made any difference after the pianist left). When I got home, I played it with the G7 and Triton and discovered it was still out of tune. I was just about to call tech support when I suddenly had a 'duh' moment.

I'm still embarrassed by this and just wondered in any of you had done anything equally stupid on a gig. It might make me feel better. BTW, as much as I like my Nord C1, their menu system sucks. Way too easy to accidently change some 'permanent' parameter (usually at the most inappropriate time).



chas