Aw, c'mon, tell us who it was. Don't leave us in suspenders.......! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Ellis" <claviers@nxs.net> To: <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:05 AM Subject: [CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics > One more case in point, and then I'm out of here - have other things to do: > > Two or more decades ago, before a certain auditorium was redone > acoustically, the 2750-seat hall was very plush and comfortable, but dead > as a door knob. It was designed for amplified speech, and in that regard, > it did just fine. > > A young pianist came to play with the symphony. After first rehearsal, she > refused to play the D that was provided. Frantic calls went to and from > Steinway, and the symphony manager had a brand new D brought in from 120 > miles away. She pitched a fit about that one too, and the owner of the new > D was called in, in a panic, to voice it. He did, but she didn't like that > either. Time was up to the wire, and she either had to play that piano, or > they would have to call off the concert. She played it. I sat way back in > the hall during the concert, and it was OK. It didn't sound bad at all, > considering the acoustically dead hall. There was no use trying to explain > to this gal that the sound was actually being projected from the stage, but > nothing was coming back, and it was obvious she was trying to make an > impression in more ways than one. (True story, but names of people and > places are omitted.) > > Jim Ellis > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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