This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Excellent post... David I. Original message From: Fred Sturm To: College and University Technicians Received: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:00:17 -0700 Subject: Re: [CAUT] excessive pedaling? On 3/21/05 2:30 PM, "Chris Solliday" <solliday@ptd.net> wrote: The trouble with being unaware is that one is unaware of being= unaware. Chris Solliday Actually, other than making a triple negative and offering= opportunities for a few wisecracks, I think that Chris, in his= typical cryptic way, was making a good point. He was commenting= on my post, where I said that as a young pianist I didn=92t think= much of the una corda pedal because I had never played a piano= that had been well-regulated and voiced (specifically with= respect to una corda). So I was unaware of the possibilities,= and =93unaware that I was unaware.=94 Hence I had a prejudice that= was unwarranted, and was missing a very important skill. Which brings me to the reason I am bothering to parse Chris=92= prose: As caut=92s we have a very special responsibility.. We are= the ones who give the ever new generation of pianists their= experience of what a piano can be. To the extent we succeed in= giving them instruments to practice and perform on that are= responsive, that have all kinds of subtlety possible by virtue= of regulation and voicing, we will have helped educate not only= them but their students. We will raise their expectations, so= when they go somewhere else they will know what is possible and= will demand it. Which is why I give a great deal of emphasis (as= much as my limited time allows) to keeping the piano major= practice grands in as close to performance shape as I can, along= with piano faculty and the concert instruments. The rest of the= inventory can be average. If I don=92t provide pianos that have had a good una corda= voicing, as one example, the piano students who play them won=92t= learn what the possibilities are, and they will be unaware of= being unaware. Nuff of that <g> Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ce/7c/7d/66/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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