[CAUT] Gradually improving voicing

[michelle stranges]

I gotta chime in here and say...

Voicing perplexes me in the instances you are just now talking about.

"One mans trash is another mans treasure."- you know what I mean?

I've had some faculty memebers rave about the piano and other (di)faculty 
members find *s*o*m*e*t*h*i*n*g they don't like about it.
Secretly I've ignored these ones and *pretend* I did something and tell 
them I changed it to their liking.
Guess what?
They think it sounds WAAAYAYYYYYYYYYYYY better.

Arms up-.... you know you've done this!!!!!  (Placebo effect, eh?)

It's too chance-y a job to mess around with when it "works" in the most 
prominant performance spaces.

To my knowledge, the piano is the only instrument that players can't tune 
on their own, service the way they'd like?

Am I wrong?

:)
Michelle


(uh-oh- now that I've said alla this... can I still stay?)

--On Monday, January 10, 2005 3:03 PM -0500 Ed Sutton 
<ed440@mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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
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