[CAUT] Gradually improving voicing

[Ed Sutton]

Sometimes there's a lot to be said fer jist saying nothin'.


> [Original Message]
> From: michelle stranges <stranges@Oswego.EDU>
> To: <ed440@mindspring.com>; College and University Technicians
<caut@ptg.org>
> Date: 1/10/2005 3:27:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Gradually improving voicing
>
> 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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