Breaking a String

[Garret Traylor]

Alan,

Would you happen to be able to get a copy say as a .wav file?  It might make a great ringtone or startup sound on the computer.

Kindest Regards,

Garret 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:17 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Breaking a String

 

Here at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, we had a student compose a piece a few years ago that involved breaking a string by tuning it it ever sharper until... recording the sound, which was then processed as part of a live laptop improvisation.  The piano I designated for this was an old Baldwin F.  If memory serves, we chose a note somewhere in the vicinity of C5 (though I don't recall exactly why).  In the "rehearsal", we got it to go about a fourth sharp before the over-stressed wire gave up the ghost.  How far sharp you can go depends on the percentage of the breaking point the wire is at "normal" pitch. 

 

YMMV. 

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