[CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

Thanks, Jim, didn't expect you to tell, but I just HAD to take the bait!
I'm not surprised she played it later in another venue and liked the piano.
Cats are finicky too, or so I hear.

Kindest regards!
Joy!
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: Saturday, January 15, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Re: Voicing and Hall Acoustics


> Elwood Doss and Horace Greeley have made my day.  Thanks, guys.
>
> Elwood wants me to tell all.  But Elwood, I think I'll stand my ground.  I
> don't want to make someone angry.  I will say, however, that it was NOT in
> Oak Ridge, TN.  I'll also say that same gal who refused to play that D
some
> 20 years ago came back the next year and played the same piano in a
> completely different setting, and she liked it.  She didn't know it was
the
> same piano, and that nothing had been done to it.
>
> But I'd rather "shift gears" now, and mention something that's the extreme
> opposite of the earlier story.
>
> Zhi Li form China is coming to Oak Ridge, TN next week for the third time,
> and she is going to play the Rachmaninoff Second with the O.R. Symphony.
> The Oak Ridge audience loves her, and I think her feeling for this
audience
> is mutual.  I like her pretty well myself.  She is very nice, and she
> appreciates anything anyone does for her or the piano.  If she plays as
> well as she did before, she will do well with the Rachmaninoff.
>
> The old D she will play is 80 years old, and it has had a rough life at
the
> Oak Ridge High School for the past 60 years, but it's still hanging in
> there.  A friend of mine re-strung it more than 20 years ago, and I gave
it
> a new set of hammers, shanks, and flanges about 5 years ago, plus a new
> music desk to replace the one that got smashed, a new lyre to replace the
> old one that got broken off three times, fixed a leg that got broken off,
> and a new Jansen artist bench to replace the old one that was wrecked.
The
> school and the school band use it, and so does the Symphony, but the City
> owns it, and there is no way it's going to get a complete rebuilding.
> Anyway, I gave it its first going-over of the year today.  It will get at
> least one more before the concert, and I'm looking forward to seeing that
> gal again and hearing her play the Rachmaninoff.
>
> Jim Ellis
>
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