Paul, Aaahh, the Liszt festival... Many years ago it was in Madison, WI. I have great fond memories of the musicians who played and their very professional demeanor. The comments were all helpful and stated in a positive fashion. I predict you are in for a great technical and musical experience. Action regulation; One area that I have not seen mentioned which is VERY important. Take a few hours in your schedule and go over the action regulations with a microscope. I recommend that let-off and drop be set less than normal. Let-off within 1/32 and drop less than 1/32. Make double certain that each key has the same motion. Aim for the very same "FEEL" on each key and make it consistent throughout the keyboard. I don't know what this treasured comment means exactly, but one nervous nelly called the regulation European. My translation is that there was no big bump when let-off occurred. The key stroke was smooth and for pianisssimmmo playing there was a feel of control on the entire movement of the key. Hope you have as uplifting experience as I had. This is how you improve your chops. Joel Joel Jones, RPT Madison, WI On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone out there dealt with a HUGE piano festival as you can > check out on the first attachment. (I don't know why Dr. Barnes put > his signature on here!). It doesn't look physically doable to keep > the piano in wonderful tune, and would love some advise on how to > handle so many piano pieces in such a short amount of time. > > Thanks > Paul > > ----- Forwarded by Paul T Williams/Music/UNL/UNEBR on 10/22/2009 > 10:22 AM ----- > From: Paul Barnes <pbarnes2 at unl.edu> > To: Paul Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> > Date: 10/22/2009 09:15 AM > Subject: liszt > > > > > > ********************************** > Paul Barnes > Professor of Piano > American Liszt Society Board of Directors > University of Nebraska-Lincoln > School of Music > 241 Westbrook Music Building > Lincoln NE 68588-0100 > (402) 525-2778 > www.paulbarnes.net > www.music.unl.edu > > ********************************** > > <Liszt brochure 2010-low res.pdf><Paul Barnes signature_2.jpg> > Joel Jones, RPT Madison, WI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091023/2562faf0/attachment.htm>
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