Ed: Do you have a lot of "randy dowagers" attending concerts in Nashville? dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <A440A@aol.com> To: <caut@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:51:37 EST Subject: Re: It's Alive!!!! >>>Comments like, "It is stiffer". Is all too often tone >related. >> > I agree, and I will also go out on a limb here and say that the majority >of professionals that like hard hammers do so because they have a narrow view >of tone. They don't think in terms of changing a note's spectrum by dint of >force, but, rather, how loud or soft the note is. To these same people, "Color" >is contrasting volume, not changing in the harmonic "envelope" to favor more >or less high partials in the note. It is the "Volume", not "Tone", control >that their fingers are glued to. Passages are soft or loud, and by using all >points in between they appear to be nuance-sensitive and musically complex. >At no time will the performer have to strain to get all there is in perceived >"power". > However, there is a musical dimension missing with so little change in >the actual tone between pp and FF. IMHO, what is missing are the more complex >results from hammers that offer a full palette of tone to accompany the volume. >Who cares? (that is a rhetorical question!) As the world continues moving >ever further into hard, edgy pianos, those that recognize the difference and >know why are few and far between. Many don't listen to the piano, they listen >to the artist, or the music, etc. They aren't focussed on the same thing we >are. > When the swash-buckling, hired-gun, piano-slinger shows up for the >concert, the lively, hot-rod piano is usually the one of choice because it doesn't >ask for a lot of work out of the artist, it's easy to play. That the sound is >thin out in the hall often doesn't matter to the artist, but the tuner in the >audience that knows a harsh piano when he hears one will be less impressed >than the randy dowager sitting in the front row wishing that swooning was still >in vogue so she could make her pitch. > >Regards, >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <A HREF="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.html"> >MP3.com: Six Degrees of Tonality</A> >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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