"Temporary" voicing

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Wed Apr 11 11:16 MDT 2001


Unfortunately, this is about THIS piano, the donor etc.!!  The Meyerson has a couple of nice pianos that we have used in the past, but the donor was told this piano would be used at the concert.

dave

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On 4/11/01 at 11:55 AM Ken Eschete wrote:

>David,
>My advise is not about voicing.  If you have a piano that fits your own
>concert venue, I think you should leave it alone.  For a little more (or
>the same price)  of moving your concert grand, you can get one of the
>Steinway CD's from the dealer.  Less risk all the way around.  (I have
>learned this lesson the hard way!)
>
>Ken Eschete
>Northwestern University
>
>>    We got our new Yamaha CFIIIS 3 weeks ago, and it is very nice.  Nice
>>round tone perfect for our 500 seat recital hall.     Now, next week it
>>will be moved to the Meyerson Symphony Hall to be used in  a concerto. 
>>Our artist-in-residence likes the sound as it is now for our  hall, but in
>>competing with the orchestra next week, wants some extra "zip" to  the top
>>octave or so.     Can anyone thing of an appropriate way to voice this up,
>>then successfully  bring it back down after the concerto performance? 
>>Unless I hear some  better idea, I'll probably keytop the last octave or
>>so, then steam it down when  it gets back.  I really hate doing this to a
>>brand new piano, but....   On the other hand, I guess this is why Yamaha
>>sells replacement hammers!   dave
>>
>> David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern
>>Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
>>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275



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