[CAUT] Bowing piano strings?

[Joe And Penny Goss]

And they are expecting to perform on your best concert grand, right?
Joe Goss RPT
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zeno Wood" <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Bowing piano strings?


> Anyone have any thoughts on bowing piano strings?  It's for the
> contemporary music ensemble, can't remember the composer right now.
> The piano strings would be sounded with string/horse hair held in both
> hands and shoe-shined, kinda like dental floss.  The performers are
> trying to figure out what material to use for this.  I think that
> rosin is probably not too good for bass strings, what do you think?
> Is there some kind of material that would have the necessary "grab" to
> put the string into motion without rosin?
> 
> Thanks,
> Zeno Wood
> Brooklyn College