Techniques for recording a Steinway D

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

I should add to my personal endorsement of the Kawai PR1 system that 
you want your castors tight, legs tight, lyre tight and trapwork 
quiet when miking under the piano.  The benefits are:
	greatly reduced/eliminated damper swoosh
	reduced/eliminated hammer percussive sound
	reduced/eliminated string noise in the ultra high partials.
	much less room interference and good noise isolation
The Kawai mikes are mounted to beams with velcro underneath the 
bridges.  The treble one close and the bass one further down.  You 
should be able to do this with good unidirectional mikes.  But you 
will have to replicate the EQ, panning etc on your equipment rather 
than dialing purpose designed ones up on the PR1.  Of-course Pros may 
wish to avoid those and have more control... (or headache depending 
on you're point of view).

Good luck,
Andrew Anderson