---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Nov 23, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote: > > Mike, > > My mentor had this situation once for a Baptist church. The pianist > was pounding the heck out of the piano as well as having the sustain > pedal down most of the time. He had to explain to the pianist that he > would continue to break strings if he kept playing that way. Once the > pianist stopped pounding so hard and using less of the sustain pedal, > the breaking of strings was slowed down and almost stopped (The > pianist would go back to his old ways occasionally) > > Duaine `I agree. This is a fairly common situation, unfortunately. When playing in a combo with other instruments, the pianists often can't hear themselves. As a result, they resort to pounding the keys while using a lot of sustain pedal. The solution to the resulting string breakage is not softer hammers, rounder v-bars, etc. The solution is a monitor for the pianist, turned up loud so the player can back off on the intensity from fff to f. The pianist cannot judge the sound the audience hears - as long as his/her monitor is turned up, the playing level should decrease into a normal range which does not over-stimulate string amplitude and cause premature material fatigue and string breakage. Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1351 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f4/e5/d1/e4/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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