[CAUT] Gradually improving voicing

[Ed Sutton]

The performance hall can have something to say.  I've had the same D sound
full and warm in a big hall and rough and ragged when it went through the
stage door and was played in the small recital hall next door.

I also feel that really good performers quickly comprehend the capacities
of an instrument, and shape the music to what's possible.  And I've heard
others bang all night on an instrument that was saturated, never figuring
out that it made no difference....fortissimo was something they felt in
their shoulders, I guess.

Ed S. 


> [Original Message]
> From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: 1/10/2005 2:21:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Gradually improving voicing
>
>
> On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Whatever, the thing I learned first was that in order for a D to 
> > project ,& have color & susutain it must be voiced so that sitting at 
> > the piano it will  literally Roar at you.
>
> Hi Dale,
> My experience is completely the opposite.  I find that pianists have no 
> concept of how much more sound is being projected to the audience than 
> what they are hearing and feeling from the keyboard.
>
> Jeff