Thanks, Ric! Cheers, Paul In a message dated 11/3/2010 5:23:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ricb at pianostemmer.no writes: Beautiful recording. Nice work getting the piano to sound so good. It sustains quite well. I bet that pedal / damper system noise was driving you crazy, though. I guess you have to live with such things in such an old instrument. It would be interesting to hear what kind of things you needed to do in preparation for the recording, or if you had the freedom to do anything besides tune! Don Mannino Hi Don, I agree... the recording engineer and production was excellent. As far as the pedal and damper noise...and other such things that are apparent on the entire album.... whilst he managed to keep these things to a minimum... it was/is a bit of a detriment to the overall experience.... still on the other hand as you say its part of the game to some degree with such an old instrument. It had been pretty darn well put back together in the mid 1990's, but is heavily used by its present owner. Torleif Torgesen. He does most of the routine tuning and all the regulation of this instrument on his own so my hands were pretty tied as to changing things... tho there were some issues that simply had to be delt with as his playing knowledge of the instrument did not allow for Ms Glasser to compensate entirely... so we did a few minor letoff and damper things... but nothing major. He noticed immediately after the recording week. Most of my work was going in and tuning, retuning... listening with the producer/engineer as the recordings unfolded and cringing at this that and the other note. If you listen to the entire CD you will understand... tho all in all I am very very pleased at the result of my part in this as well.... actually a bit proud of myself, which in turn if I may so reflects very much on all of you... because you all have in this distant internet medium way... and in some more limited more direct fashion pushed me to try and get better all the time. But Livs playing... you should have seen this 75 year old grand lady of Norwegian piano art work so hard.... and Erik Gard Amundsen deserve all the real credit. As to other questions... the piano was built by Gottleib Hafner in Vienna in 1830 or there abouts. Restored by Edwin Deunk and Johan Wennink in 1994. Purchased by its present owner some 6-7 years ago and brought to Bergen. Liv Glasser is coming to town next week for a live concert so I get to attempt a tuning that holds reasonably well up for some 45 minutes. I picked these two cuts because I wanted you all to be able to hear both the power the thing was able to take... the beating it actually could hold up to, and in contrast the mellow soft beauty it has too offer for quieter more open singing. The album is released by Simax, Grappa Musikkforlag AS in Oslo. I have to remove these recordings in a couple days of course But by all means buy one... its a unique and wonderful recording with 46 cuts from the work Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15. I'll post a link to a place you can order in short order. Thanks for all the positive vibes back folks.... RicB Beautiful recording. Nice work getting the piano to sound so good. It sustains quite well. I bet that pedal / damper system noise was driving you crazy, though. I guess you have to live with such things in such an old instrument. It would be interesting to hear what kind of things you needed to do in preparation for the recording, or if you had the freedom to do anything besides tune! Don Mannino -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101103/451ac9ee/attachment.htm>
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