[CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Elwood,

At 01:12 PM 1/14/2005, you wrote:
>Aw, c'mon, tell us who it was.  Don't leave us in suspenders.......!

Actually, this could be any number of halls and any number of female or 
male pianists...most folks simply do not understand projection.  If they 
are not bleeding from the ears at the bench, the piano is not loud enough.

Horace


>Elwood
>Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT
>Piano Technician/Technical Director
>Department of Music
>145 Fine Arts Building
>University of Tennessee at Martin
>Martin, TN  38238
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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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