[CAUT] excessive pedaling?

[Wigent, Donald E]

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Well put Fred.=20

I have 150 pianos to care for and one must have priorities,  a.?  Then
there is parts yah.  Good luck, and how about funding for conventions.

Don Wigent E C U=20

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From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Fred Sturm
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:00 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] excessive pedaling?

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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't 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 "unaware that I was unaware."
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' prose:
As caut's 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.=20
    If I don't provide pianos that have had a good una corda voicing, as
one example, the piano students who play them won't learn what the
possibilities are, and they will be unaware of being unaware.
    Nuff of that <g>

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico=20


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