[CAUT] String breakage "In C"

[Fred Sturm]

Hi Alan,
	Lucky you, that this piece is so popular with your students. Thanks  
for the heads up. I'm curious, what does the "pulse" consist of? From  
the string breakage, it sounds like Fortissimo octaves rather than  
tremolo. (The piece isn't in our library, or I'd go check).
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:55 PM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote:

> We just lost two strings on a Steinway B, one of our primary  
> performance pianos during a rehearsal of Terry Riley's "In C".  The  
> piece has a pulse played for the duration on the two highest C's.   
> (Too bad the player didn't get what the piano was trying to tell him  
> when the first string broke!)  I was not informed that a piano was  
> going to be used for this piece (now they are replacing it with a  
> mallet instrument), or I would have at least backed the let-off,  
> normally a breath away on C7 & C8 on our performance pianos, WAYYY  
> off.
>
> Oh, well.
>
> FWIW,
>
> Alan Eder
>
> P. S On one other occasion in which this piece was played here, they  
> used our Bosie 275 (with individually tied treble strings).  After  
> eventually breaking all three strings on C7, the player, obviously  
> unable to hear the sound that was NOT coming out of the piano from  
> that note, continued to hammer away, repeatedly driving the hammer  
> directly into the capo bar.  By the end of the performance the  
> hammer felt was sliced open clear down to the molding!
>
> ae
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