David, You WOULD have to ask, wouldn't you? Why, indeed... Because a composition student wants to do a Conlon Nancorrow-esque type piece for prepared piano. We don't have any Disklavier grands here, just a couple of (ancient) MX100s. From the sounds of it, I think his piece may exceed what a Disklavier is capable of in terms of speed of repetition and polyphony, anyway. Cheers, Alan E. -----Original Message----- From: David M. Porritt <dporritt at smu.edu> To: 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Sep 28 5:26 PM Subject: RE: Action function on a tilted upright Alan: I have zero first hand knowledge for you but I'd guess that you are right about the action not working in anything but a vertical position. In addition, all the node points would be mostly behind the action (and who knows how much Disklavier mechanism). You certainly can't do much "playing" inside the piano on a vertical. I just have to ask, Why? dp ____________________ David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:58 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Action function on a tilted upright Hi List, The issue is using a Disklavier upright as a prepared piano. One is limited in the selection of usable preparations by virtue of the fact that gravity is working against them staying in place between the strings (in a vertical piano). Someone is entertaining the notion of tilting the piano to horizontal (or as close to it as is workable) while still having the action function. So I'm just wondering if someone who has experience with this can save me the trouble of finding out for myself. My guess is that the action will not work in the horizontal position, and will work increasingly poorly the further from vertical it gets. Anyone? Alan Eder ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com
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