Thanks, Jim, didn't expect you to tell, but I just HAD to take the bait! I'm not surprised she played it later in another venue and liked the piano. Cats are finicky too, or so I hear. Kindest regards! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Ellis" <claviers@nxs.net> To: <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 9:05 PM Subject: [CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics > Elwood Doss and Horace Greeley have made my day. Thanks, guys. > > Elwood wants me to tell all. But Elwood, I think I'll stand my ground. I > don't want to make someone angry. I will say, however, that it was NOT in > Oak Ridge, TN. I'll also say that same gal who refused to play that D some > 20 years ago came back the next year and played the same piano in a > completely different setting, and she liked it. She didn't know it was the > same piano, and that nothing had been done to it. > > But I'd rather "shift gears" now, and mention something that's the extreme > opposite of the earlier story. > > Zhi Li form China is coming to Oak Ridge, TN next week for the third time, > and she is going to play the Rachmaninoff Second with the O.R. Symphony. > The Oak Ridge audience loves her, and I think her feeling for this audience > is mutual. I like her pretty well myself. She is very nice, and she > appreciates anything anyone does for her or the piano. If she plays as > well as she did before, she will do well with the Rachmaninoff. > > The old D she will play is 80 years old, and it has had a rough life at the > Oak Ridge High School for the past 60 years, but it's still hanging in > there. A friend of mine re-strung it more than 20 years ago, and I gave it > a new set of hammers, shanks, and flanges about 5 years ago, plus a new > music desk to replace the one that got smashed, a new lyre to replace the > old one that got broken off three times, fixed a leg that got broken off, > and a new Jansen artist bench to replace the old one that was wrecked. The > school and the school band use it, and so does the Symphony, but the City > owns it, and there is no way it's going to get a complete rebuilding. > Anyway, I gave it its first going-over of the year today. It will get at > least one more before the concert, and I'm looking forward to seeing that > gal again and hearing her play the Rachmaninoff. > > Jim Ellis > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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