[CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

Aw, c'mon, tell us who it was.  Don't leave us in suspenders.......!
Elwood
Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT
Piano Technician/Technical Director
Department of Music
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University of Tennessee at Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Ellis" <claviers@nxs.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics


> One more case in point, and then I'm out of here - have other things to
do:
>
> Two or more decades ago, before a certain auditorium was redone
> acoustically, the 2750-seat hall was very plush and comfortable, but dead
> as a door knob.  It was designed for amplified speech, and in that regard,
> it did just fine.
>
> A young pianist came to play with the symphony.  After first rehearsal,
she
> refused to play the D that was provided.  Frantic calls went to and from
> Steinway, and the symphony manager had a brand new D brought in from 120
> miles away.  She pitched a fit about that one too, and the owner of the
new
> D was called in, in a panic, to voice it.  He did, but she didn't like
that
> either.  Time was up to the wire, and she either had to play that piano,
or
> they would have to call off the concert.  She played it.  I sat way back
in
> the hall during the concert, and it was OK.  It didn't sound bad at all,
> considering the acoustically dead hall.  There was no use trying to
explain
> to this gal that the sound was actually being projected from the stage,
but
> nothing was coming back, and it was obvious she was trying to make an
> impression in more ways than one.  (True story, but names of people and
> places are omitted.)
>
> Jim Ellis
>
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