[CAUT] Bowing piano strings?

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 Zeno,

For plain wire, we use bows made by fishing line coursed back and forth between two large paper clips. taped at each end for tidy-ness (a word?).? And rosin.? For wound strings, we use caution tape ("Police line-do not cross", etc.).? 

And I want to second the notion that it takes very little by way of contamination to ruin a wound string.

Hope that helps..let us know what you come up with.

Alan Eder

P. S. Is the composer in question Stephen Scott?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 8:04 pm
Subject: [CAUT] Bowing piano strings?










Anyone have any thoughts on bowing piano strings?  It's for the
contemporary music ensemble, can't remember the composer right now.
The piano strings would be sounded with string/horse hair held in both
hands and shoe-shined, kinda like dental floss.  The performers are
trying to figure out what material to use for this.  I think that
rosin is probably not too good for bass strings, what do you think?
Is there some kind of material that would have the necessary "grab" to
put the string into motion without rosin?

Thanks,
Zeno Wood
Brooklyn College



 


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