String Removal during Restrin with Original Pins

[David M. Porritt]

This message got cut off the first time.  Here's another try.  dp

Joe:

And Liszt broke lots of strings!  Serious players, concert/recital players do break strings.  Some more than others.  If I had a concert grand that broke 4 strings in 15 years I'd think I was retired!  In the academic world, and on the concert stage where these people's reputation is made by the story in the paper the next morning, they do tend to put all they have in their performance.  The fff is at least ffff, and the ppp is pppp.  Less noticed is the freedom they take with the tempo but the review in the paper that says "dynamic" "sensitive" "powerful" sure beats "lifeless" "mundane" or "boring".  Getting the next engagement depends on that review.  In view of that, a few broken strings along the way is simply trivial collateral damage.  

dave


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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275


----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:34:49 -0700
Subject: Re: String Removal during Restrin with Original Pins

>"Joe:

>Stravinsky breaks strings!

>dave"

>Dave,
>Not if all things are as they should be!!!!!! Of course, there are some
>pianists that can break stings at will, but that's another thing all
>together. My feeling is: I don't care what kind of music is being played,
>the piano should not break strings unless there is a problem, albeit scale,
>terminations, hammers, regulation, .....etc.! Stravinsky wrote/played on
>truly lesser pianos than a Steinway "D" and probably didn't have any sting
>problems. (Of course that's just a guess on my part.<G>) Beethoven broke
>strings. But, he was DEAF! I would bet dollars to donuts that there is
>something amiss there.
>Best Regards,
>Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
>Captain, Tool Police
>Squares Are I


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