Prepared piano

[David M. Porritt]

I have one piano here that I try to get everyone to use for "prepared
piano" music. I'm not entirely successful.  I have thought of painting
the dampers of the black notes white since the usual practice is to put
white self stick tapes on the dampers of black notes.  This would at
least keep them from having to install the stickers then mess up the
dampers while removing them.  It would make the piano look kind of
strange though.

dave

Rick.Florence@ASU.Edu wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> Rick Florence, Piano Technician
> Arizona State University, School of Music
> http://www.asu.edu/cfa/music/

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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
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