Rick, Two years ago, two of the music faculty at Colby were doing a fair bit of prepared piano works. The way the pianists identified the strings was by using very small self adhesive labels stuck on the top of the agraffes. I suppose some performers want markings right where they touch the strings, but this seemed to be a reasonable compromise. (for a while, they were sticking these on the damper heads) Regards, Gordon Large Maine In a message dated 97-04-11 15:58:30 EDT, you write: << List, I've been meeting with a professor to talk about less damaging ways to deal with prepared piano works. I have been able to solve pretty much all of the problems with substitution of tools and methods, however one problem still remains. They have been marking base strings with chaulk (augh!) and I need to find a better means of identifying stings without filling the windings with such a mess. Any ideas? Thanks ---- Rick Florence, Piano Technician Arizona State University, School of Music http://www.asu.edu/cfa/music/ >>
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