Hi Joe, As many on this list are already aware, here at California Institute of the Arts we have made a video titled "Non-Traditional Piano Use." It is a 35 minute primer that guides the viewer through exploring the extended sound world of the piano, and doing so in ways that are piano friendly. It is our contribution to taking a sane approach to extended techniques at the piano. (An order form is attached.) Sounds like you would appreciate the fact that while we were in production, the working title was "It's the Dampers, Stupid!" (a la the then popular Clintonism, "It's the economy, stupid"). Cheers, Alan Eder, RPT -----Original Message----- From: jwpiano at earthlink.net To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Tue, 15 May 2007 5:55 AM Subject: [CAUT] Agraffes and dampers Hello list, This is my first posting to the CAUT list. I have two questions 1: How do you keep dampers free from damage when modern music requires playing the strings with fingers and the performers paste the damper heads with colored stickers, then remove them and tearing felt, etc. This is at NYU, but my own experience in music school tells me it must be all over. 2: A Petrof P131 upright with agraffes to the top has broken every string from E6-E7. The break is at the edge of the bearing before entering the agraffe on the speaking side. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe Wiencek jwpiano at earthlink.net tel: 551 358 4006 ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NTPU order form Type: application/octet-stream Size: 20480 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070515/187f603e/attachment.obj
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