Agreed. It's a diagnostic tool, and I like the definition you added there, of pounding the tuning out, not in. That said, my original post was more a comment on the physicality of Rzewski's piano works. -Zeno W > This appears to be a variant of the way too common misinterpretation of > "pounding". Jim's description seems to be of the most common. It's not a > tuning technique, or shouldn't be. It's a test of the tuning technique that > got you to this test. I almost said something about it a few days ago when > someone mentioned pounding a tuning in. That's exactly the wrong approach. > You don't pound a tuning in. Any pounding done is an attempt to knock the > tuning out, to find out how you did. It's a small flash of light into a big > dark place, that might just tell you something important. The "smash" > doesn't stabilize a piano, it's just a committee test blow after the fact. > It also won't destabilize pitch any more than a test blow does, and won't > cause a note to go out of tune the next time it's played any more than will > a test blow. It's a diagnostic tool that, like a test blow, is one of the > very very few indicators we have of how close we got to equalizing segment > tensions during the tunings. > > Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101216/c5ee8065/attachment.htm>
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