Defending one's tuning

[Rip Lowman]

Would this be the famous conductor who mounted the podium, looked squarely at the brass section, and said 'You're already too loud'?
Rip Lowman (low brass player)
Tucson 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: J. Stanley Ryberg 
  To: pianotech 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:59 PM
  Subject: Re: Defending one's tuning


  Thanks, Diane, for this bit of information.  Though I'm no longer in the situation, for a number of years I played in a professional orchestra for a conductor who shall remain nameless (he's out there somewhere, in NYC, I think).  He was so very sensitive to trumpets, specifically, but brass, generally, that if we could be heard, we were too loud.  The principal trumpet player (a very close friend) was quite convinced that this conductor had hearing loss that was making him hypersensitive to particular frequencies (and associated partials) and that this caused the problems the trumpet section had for the duration of this festival.  It was also interesting to note that a guest conductor of at least equal ability as a conductor had no such issues with the same trumpet section!

  GREAT IDEA, PHIL  !

  Strange as it may seem, a person with hearing loss sometimes cringes
  more 
  from a bright sounding piano than a normal hearer does.

  Frequently the person with hearing loss not only loses the ability to
  hear 
  soft sounds, but also loses the ability to _tolerate loud sound_.
    Their 
  total dynamic range becomes smaller.

  Diane



  Diane Hofstetter




  Stan Ryberg 
  Barrington IL 
  jstan40 at sbcglobal.net
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