Bowing a piano? Oh, come on, let's get past John Cage. We need to move on (and I DON'T mean moveon.org). Fred Thompson for President! Joy! Elwood Rev. Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E; RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 Office: 731/881-1852 Fax: 731/881-7415 -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of A440A at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:22 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bowing piano strings? << I think that rosin is probably not too good for bass strings, what do you think?<<' Greetings, I think anything is not too good for bass strings! Bass strings go dead with the least amount of contamination. I have seen one drop of Coke kill a bass string, so maybe they should think of shoe-shining it with something that doesn't come off. Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's new at http://www.aol.com</HTML>
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