[CAUT] Nice sound can carry

[Horace Greeley]

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Hi, Barbara,

A nod = grand slam.

BRAVA!

Best.

Horace


At 07:03 AM 5/5/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Last Friday night there was an concert at the big (nearly 3500 seats), 
>acoustically marginal, auditorium I work for.  This was the first *major* 
>performance for this Steinway D, since I rebuilt the action.  When I was 
>hired on there, we had (or I thought we had) an agreement that the piano 
>would always be amplified.  Keeping that in mind while voicing, I just 
>made it the most musical instrument I could.  When a local professor came 
>to test the piano, I did notice that it had no problem filling the (empty) 
>hall on its own.
>
>So, along comes the orchestra and its soloist, a Russian fellow from 
>Birmingham (Hey, Wim, I took extra time on that una corda!), playing 
>Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.  As the rehearsal set up 
>started, I went to talk to the orchestra's stage manager about 
>miking.  "Nope, we never use amplification."  I just about fainted.
>
>I was at the back of the hall for the performance.  The piano could be 
>heard (though I wouldn't have minded if it had just a bit more 
>power).  Which proves to me that one doesn't need hammers voiced like 
>granite to carry--a belief, I'm afraid, that prevails around "these parts."
>
>A pianist I know was also sitting in the last row (I had told her this was 
>the new action's maiden run).  After the performance she came up to me and 
>said, "The piano sounded fabulous----what nuances!"   God Bless her--those 
>nuances, that's what I shoot for!  When I went backstage, I also had 
>compliments from some orchestra members.  The soloist didn't say much (and 
>I had been told that he doesn't say much), but he did nod at me when I saw 
>him at intermission, so I guess it was acceptable.
>
>
>Whew!
>
>Barbara Richmond, RPT
>Braden Auditorium at Illinois State University
>

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