[CAUT] Agraffes and dampers

[Paul T Williams]

Jeff,

I'm glad to see I'm not the only "fuddy-duddy" in the world.  I enjoy new 
music, but using a piano like this is like going fishing with a flute for 
a pole!

Paul



Jeff Tanner <jtanner at mozart.sc.edu> 
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On May 15, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Joe Wiencek wrote:

This is my first posting to the CAUT list.  I have two questions
1:  How do you keep dampers free from damage when modern music requires 
playing the strings with fingers and the performers paste the damper heads 
with colored stickers, then remove them and tearing felt, etc. This is at 
NYU, but my own experience in music school tells me it must be all over.

You insist that if anyone is doing prepared piano music, they have to use 
the worn out L from a practice room.

Somehow, someway, we must educate musicians that the people who wrote this 
stuff were not aware that it causes damage to pianos.

Only problem here is, they know my aversion to the practice and do what 
they want to without telling anyone, tearing up the pianos in the process.



Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina



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