[CAUT] Practicing on concert instruments...again...

[Jeff Tanner]

One other thing to keep in mind is that the winds, voice and strings 
students (and I've seen faculty react this way, too) will object to piano 
majors getting extra time in the hall. "We need more rehearsal time in the 
hall with our accompanists, too."

You have to make rules that apply fairly across the board.
Jeff Tanner


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Libin" <lelibin at optonline.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Practicing on concert instruments...again...


> Concern for concert pianos and for workloads is very understandable, but 
> perhaps college and university technicians might also consider the value 
> to students of a couple of hours of practice time on the special 
> instrument they might otherwise be playing for the first time in what for 
> them might be a milestone performance. In my limited experience, playing 
> an unfamiliar instrument in an unfamiliar acoustic sometimes makes me 
> rethink tempo, articulation, dynamics, balance, so I suppose it could also 
> take a student more than one hour of practice time to adjust to the 
> situation. Obviously unessential use of concert pianos has to be 
> restricted, but surely college techs can try to cut the kids some slack so 
> they can appear at their best in recital.
>
> Laurence Libin