prepped piano HELP! (xlist)

[Wolfley, Eric (WOLFLEEL)]

Conrad,

At least he asked (or told) you. If your place is like this place you will
probably find a couple of practice room pianos on which he was perfecting
his technique. We have a designated "preparation practice" piano here, but
there are still many defaced practice room pianos. I have a copy of Alan
Eder's video and have used it in my piano tech. class as well as a loaner
for the kind souls who do inquire about non-traditional techniques well in
advance. Unfortunately, I can't find it right now so I must have loaned it
to an unkind soul who has not returned it. 

Alas...no good deed goes unpunished.

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Eric Wolfley
Head Piano Technician
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Conrad Hoffsommer [mailto:hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu] 
Sent:	Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:23 AM
To:	College and University Technicians
Subject:	Re: prepped piano HELP! (xlist)

Joel,

At 23:15 3/11/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Don & Conrad
>I thought that film had been available from the home office.  It was 
>professionally filmed with stunning photography.
>     At the same session I showed a film that Todd Welbourne of UW-Madison 
> piano faculty made showing what preparation we allowed on our 
> pianos.  While it was not the quality of Allan s film the points were 
> well identified and the dos and don ts were very specific.
>     We put the film on reserve at the music library and required anyone 
> doing interior performance to view the film.  It has saved many hours of 
> answering questions and describing each procedure of installation.
>     If you re interested and the damage hasn t already been done I would 
> be happy to see what I can do to get information about UW protocol.
>Joel
>--


I think a copy of the UW-Mad would be a great thing to have. Any way for me 
to get a copy?

BTW,  this morning I removed all the tape from the strings, labels from the 
damper heads and fished out a couple damper labels which were on the 
soundboard and in the action.

One thing which irks me, and probably will never change [even if I show 
faculty a video], is that, two days before his recital he tells me about 
the "preparation" as a fait accompli.



Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT
Decorah, IA

Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated 
Lever Action Tone Generation Systems

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