----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: Piano Empty Trees WAS Re: Help with Steinway Model.. > At 5:15 PM +0100 11/16/03, Richard Brekne wrote: > > No biggie... it just would be fun to hear some of these older > >instruments we all come across, and compare them with some of the > >topics we discuss. Besides... I'd like to hear you play a few licks > >for us on your A anyways ! > > > >Cheers > > The last time we had an mp3 posted on the list, Stephen Airy was > trying to decide whether to just twist the existing bass strings on > his Ricca upright, or replacement them (or even yet, do a rescaling). > Yours would be a definite up-tick in musical quality. > > There are people on this list who could point to shareware (or even > demo) software which could record direct to disk (digitizing an > analog signal from a medium quality stereo microphone). If not, you > might check with any classical chamber musicians for someone with a > Mini Disc (for rehearsal purposes) with a companion-quality > microphone. These are getting quite miniature, and are not especially > esoteric equipment. The analog output of that of course would have to > be digitized at the computers audio line input before conversion to > mp3. Ago, there are people in this list who can point you in the > direction of proper software. If you had a mac, I'd set you up. Set me up? But I'm already married! Oh, yes.....well, I don't know anything about what you wrote, so unless I can find someone to help me (who won't run out screaming in frustration at my naiveté), the little house somewhere near Peoria, will be just a house and not a recording studio. > Then again, we're talking 7' ceilings in a 10'x14' dining room, > right? Not to worry, good ears can hear past that to get to the > piano's intrinsic sound. This is what I see as the stumbling block. To tell the truth, if I'm going to expose myself, I'd like to do it well. :-) > > So given the way Ric phrased his request, what program are you going > to give him, the Jerry Lee Lewis? the Yanni? the Liberace? Well, for Ric's sake I could pull out some Grieg. Otherwise, I'm afraid it'd have to be Brahms, Schubert, or something from the graduate recital that never was...... :-) Can't think about it now, I'm going on a Field Trip to a Native American Burial sight with the first graders today. Barbara Richmond, RPT first grade room mother, going on the road ;-) > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "All God's Children got Rhythm" > ...........Ivy Anderson in "A Day at the Races" > +++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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