Les Noces

[Wolfley, Eric (WOLFLEEL)]

I think the pianos are all going to sound different even if they are tuned
perfectly together. Nothing wrong with being in tune... I'm going to throw
some fertilizer on the fire here and ask everybody how much stretch they put
in their concert tunings...All four of these pianos are pretty well scaled -
no big surprises. I think they would all sound pretty good with an averaged
tuning file and sound good together as long as the stretching was done
equally. I've been using OTS 8 on my cybertuner with excellent results and
feedback here. People don't seem to mind 2 BPS in the double octaves.
Wouldn't good unisons amongst all 4 pianos be preferable? The slight
differences in stretched double-octave beat rates would not be as noticeable
in my opinion. 

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Eric Wolfley, RPT
Head Piano Technician
Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wimblees@aol.com [SMTP:Wimblees@aol.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:02 PM
> To:	caut@ptg.org
> Subject:	Re: Les Noces
> 
> Eric 
> 
> Just to put two cents worth in here, I would have to say that sometimes we
> try to make life too difficult. I forgot who said it, but I agree with the
> comparison of the four singers. Because of the different tonal
> characteristics of the 4 pianos, even if you got all four of them to be
> perfectly in tune, they are going to sound different (unless you're also
> going to voice all four pianos to sound the same). And, again, I forgot
> who said it, but I agree that perhaps Stravinsky wanted all four of the
> pianos to sound slightly different, to give them each their own character.
> 
> 
> So give Lawrence a break, and just let him tune all four pianos to their
> own temeprament. 
> 
> Wim