It's about time you showed up here Victeaux!! :) your secret admirer --On Friday, October 8, 2004 7:15 AM -0400 Victor Belanger <vbela@MIT.EDU> wrote: > How ironic! > > Next week I have to prep a piano for Lou Harrison's Symphony #3, and in > the score there are instructions of installing thumb tack in the hammers. > At first I thought to myself "what kind of piece of s&%t of a piano can > I put on stage" but then I looked at the score and it is somewhat > demanding. It does not make me happy but, I chose an upright and I will > take it as it is and find out what needs to be done after. If I need to > change the hammers, then that is what I will need to do; sadly. > > Anyone with other kind of experiences with thumbtack that could recommend > a few pointers. > > Best. > > Victor Belanger > MIT > > ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> > From: John Minor <jminor@uiuc.edu> > To: caut <caut@ptg.org> > Received: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:55:11 -0500 > Subject: [CAUT] Thumbtacks in hammers! > >> Well, it finally happened. Every university technician fears >> that one day the following will happen in their school: > >> A recently rebuilt Steinway B was used for a performance of >> Stravinsky's RAGTIME. The piece calls for cymbalum so, in it's >> place a piano had thumb tacks pushed into the hammer felt to >> imitate the sound. This was for a NEW MUSIC performance here >> at the University of Illinois. > >> I wrote a nice email to the performing arts center director >> where the atrocity was committed and informed them the hammers >> would need to be replaced at a cost of $400 for the parts. >> Unfortunately, I failed to mention the 30 or so hours it could >> take to bore and hang the new set! > >> The department directors spoke and the offenders were >> supposedly "spoken to" about the matter. Personally I'd rather >> have had the chance to talk to people face to face and ask, >> "What were you thinking?" There seems to be an attitude of >> "I'll do anything I darn well feel like doing" among many in >> our music department. Is that an isolated attitude? > > >> John Minor >> University of Illinois > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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