Digitals-- and sound modelling reply

[Brad Smith]

I used to dream of a 'screen-type' fake book. When I first came to Boston, I
auditioned for a piano bar job in a Mob joint in East Boston.   They took
away my fake books, and my tie, and said, "Ok kid, now play!"
Just then the telephone rang, the bar tender picked it up, looked at me, and
said, "He wantsa heah Besame Mucho....play Besame Mucho".  Then he held the
phone out towards the piano.
(Needless to say, I played it with all my heart).  I was apparently
accepted, and played the rest of the audition without incident.  I think it
was about the same time I saw a poster advertising for apprentice piano
technicians at Berklee where I was a student.   Perhaps this was a turning
point in my life as a musician.  Anyway, NOBODY messes with me in Boston to
this day :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Digitals-- and sound modelling reply


>Speaking of which, how long before pianists can get a thin, flat
>liquid crystal monitor, which will store all their music, so they
>don't have to turn pages? It can be a terrible mess for them.
>
>I could foresee the day when he or she would just tap the left side of the
>lyre with their left foot and -- zip -- the next two pages appear. Tap
>a place further up, and -- zip -- the previous two pages reappear, (just
>in case he or she overdid it).
>
>I watched an opera accompanist in a concert production, fighting the
>pages all evening, in the midst of playing an orchestra reduction,
>staying perfectly in time with the singers, and playing with lovely
>color, verve, and nuance. The piano was toward the side of the stage,
>(had never been over there before) and a draft kept trying to turn
>his pages back again. To say he deserved a medal is understating it.
>
>Why should pianists have to put up with this sort of stuff, in these
>days of scanners and gigabyte memories?
>
>Susan Kline
>P.O. Box 1651
>Philomath, OR 97370
>skline@proaxis.com
>
>"It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read
than
>there are today."
> -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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