[CAUT] John Cage, "The Earth Shall Bear Again"

[Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)]

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Jeff,

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Go to your school's music library and see if they have a copy of "The
Well-Prepared Piano" by Richard Bunger. I think it explains all the
"nuts and bolts" of preparing pianos for these pieces. I haven't yet
gotten to see a copy because it's out of print and the copy at CCM is
out on "permanent loan" ie.- stolen.

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Eric

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Eric Wolfley, RPT

Supervising Piano Technician

College-Conservatory of Music

University of Cincinnati

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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Jeff Tanner
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:36 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] John Cage, "The Earth Shall Bear Again"

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On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Otto Keyes wrote:





My vote is to let the earth bear it....again.....give the rest of us a
break

outside the cage...

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Otto

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Well, I would vote with you, but it is beginning to look like my
preferences and suggestions that prepared piano accelerates piano wear
are being totally ignored. =20

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"I just want to do something different"=20

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"but it sounds so cool"

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Yeah, some people probably think the sound of an airliner colliding with
a tall building sounds cool and different too.

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Anyhow, I agreed to help her with the preparation.  This piece didn't
look too involved as long as she lets me help.  Rather do it that way
than find a bunch of maimed damper felt and broken strings.  The problem
is going to become that she will want to rehearse it on a prepared
practice room piano from now till March. =20

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Question is this:  the instructions give exact distance from the damper
to place the screws, bolts, etc.  How much does piano make and model
affect what Cage was after?  (I mean, really, was there really a method
to his madness? or was this guy just really doing some serious
d-basing?)  When he says "bamboo", is it a "slice" of large bamboo or a
"tube" of smaller diameter bamboo (like what he was using to snort coke?
maybe a doobie holder?)?  green or dried?  and what is usually used for
the "plastic" weaved around the low A, Bb, and B?  Drink straw maybe?
(see snort)

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No. I'm sorry. I just can't take this music form seriously.  But some
people want to give it merit.

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Jeff


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