Check with Malcolm. He made a DVD on fortepiano maintenance, which I presume he still offers for sale. His Cornell DVD Knowing the Score is a wonderful lecture on how to read Urtexts musically. Really worth having for anyone who plays piano. Ed Sutton ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul T Williams To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:06 PM Subject: [CAUT] fortepiano parts? Hi CAUT! I may have asked this before, so sorry, but who sells forte-piano parts? Malcolm Bilson is coming to UNL this fall, and I feel I should have some supplies, parts, etc. We've really been lucky for the past 2 years since Robert Murphy paid a call and got this old beast up to snuff. I really don't want to tell him that there's nothing I can do if something breaks! Should I have a whole set of everything? I really don't have the budget, and nobody really plays it, so...How does one deal with this for a one time show, plus two weeks of instruction for students. Apparantly, this s a big thing for the director of the Lied Center next door, who's budget gives $4,000 for the entire year of upkeep of their Steinway D, 2 B's and a Walter upright....many tunings and concerts..... The D is at The Piano People for a 75% rebuld....no soundboard, sadly due to budget crunches.., but nicely done, I hope by them....including new Kluge keys. (It was really a mess when it left!!) Advise is warmly welcome!! Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090423/3f39384a/attachment.html>
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