Les Noces

[Richard Brekne]

In a nutshell... this is a great application for machine assisted tunings, and
I have had great luck with Cyber Ear with this exact peice. In my case we
couldnt put four grands on the same stage, so we choose 4 uprights instead. Not
being the overly brave type I suggested we put our best 4 Schimmels out there.
They were all the same size and scale so it was rather a piece of cake as it
were, tho it sure woulda been nicer with nice big grands for sure.

Your situation sounds really er.... fun !.. grin. Actually I would love to hear
the result. Any chance of you getting a bit of this concert down on a DAT
recorder and ripping a CD into MP3 format for us ??

RicB

"Wolfley, Eric (WOLFLEEL)" wrote:

> Hello fellow cauts and caucts,
>
> We have an interesting scenario here and since it well may be a situation
> unique to our environments, I am interested in everyone's opinion on the
> subject. Our Chamber Choir, Chorale and Percussion Group are performing
> Stravinsky's Les Noces this weekend. I'm not familiar with this piece (yet)
> but it calls for 4 pianos. As it turns out, we can place 4 concert grands
> onstage our large auditorium without any hassle. The interesting aspect of
> this setting is that the 4 pianos consist of a Steinway D, a Yamaha CFIIIs,
> a Kawai EX, and a Baldwin SD-10. I'll bet everyone can guess the next
> question: How would you tune these pianos to each other? My assistant
> Lawrence Becker is the lucky guy assigned to that hall and is up there
> tuning right now for the first rehearsal using his Accutuner III. With
> instruments this dissimilar, my instinct is to pick the file of the piano
> that seems the most middle of the road and tune all 4 pianos to the same
> tuning file. In the past, I've experimented matching up 2 similar pianos in
> various ways (I use a cybertuner) with equally adequate and interesting
> results, but have not encountered a challenge like this before. What would
> you do?? I'm sure Lawrence will appreciate any input when he returns from
> his investigations.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Eric Wolfley, RPT
> Head Piano Technician
> Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
> University of Cincinnati
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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