This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi all, Last Friday night there was an concert at the big (nearly 3500 seats), = acoustically marginal, auditorium I work for. This was the first = *major* performance for this Steinway D, since I rebuilt the action. = When I was hired on there, we had (or I thought we had) an agreement = that the piano would always be amplified. Keeping that in mind while = voicing, I just made it the most musical instrument I could. When a = local professor came to test the piano, I did notice that it had no = problem filling the (empty) hall on its own. So, along comes the orchestra and its soloist, a Russian fellow from = Birmingham (Hey, Wim, I took extra time on that una corda!), playing = Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. As the rehearsal set up = started, I went to talk to the orchestra's stage manager about miking. = "Nope, we never use amplification." I just about fainted. I was at the back of the hall for the performance. The piano could be = heard (though I wouldn't have minded if it had just a bit more power). = Which proves to me that one doesn't need hammers voiced like granite to = carry--a belief, I'm afraid, that prevails around "these parts." =20 A pianist I know was also sitting in the last row (I had told her this = was the new action's maiden run). After the performance she came up to = me and said, "The piano sounded fabulous----what nuances!" God Bless = her--those nuances, that's what I shoot for! When I went backstage, I = also had compliments from some orchestra members. The soloist didn't = say much (and I had been told that he doesn't say much), but he did nod = at me when I saw him at intermission, so I guess it was acceptable. Whew! Barbara Richmond, RPT Braden Auditorium at Illinois State University ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/90/70/27/1a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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