Crumbling pianos?

Fred S. Sturm fssturm@unm.edu
Wed Aug 28 09:22 MDT 2002


One of the German makers, I think Seiler, has white lines on all dampers
corresponding to naturals, and has lines on the soundboard (color coded)
matching several nodes. Nice pianos, too. Those Germans are maybe just a little
more progressive than us Yanks. ;-)
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico

Joel Jones wrote:

> >snip<
>     The dots are great for marking nodes.  They also work in bass strings.
> DEFINITELY    no chalk, white out, crayon, masking tape, dry markers,
> because no matter how lightly you put these on the strings, performers
> always need more and heavier marking .
>     Anecdote:  In my early days I painted the dampers white and left the
> sharps black.  Took hours to make it easy to see.  Performer came in and
> immediately wrote C D E  etc.  on the white dampers.  Oh, well.
>     Do you have  the William Bunger book.  There was a class in Arlington
> about interior performance.  Right now I don't remember the instructor, but
> she had a great hand-out.  If you need more info I'll do some searching.
>     Keep in tune.
> Joel
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