[CAUT] Bowing piano strings?

[reggaepass at aol.com]

Zeno,

Just spoke with Art Jarvinen (composer of "Vultures").  He said piano 
bow (as described in a previous post), not EBow.  Apparently, it is 
just one note, and it sounds like it will be a wound string on any 
piano (i. e., use the caution tape).

Regards,

Alan Eder
CalArts

-----Original Message-----
From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, Nov 15  12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bowing piano strings?

It seems likely it's one and the same guy, small world.  Thanks in
advance for the ask.

I'm the piano tech at the college.  I'm looking into all this because
I've found that explaining my concerns about piano usage AND offering
some kind of alternative goes a long way towards maintaining relations
on a good footing.  Otherwise I find the pianos with non-functioning
dampers and ballpoint pen markings on the damper heads, and all I can
do is grumble.

Thanks,
Zeno Wood
Brooklyn College


On Nov 15, 2007 8:07 AM,  <reggaepass at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  Zeno,
>
>  If the Jarvinen in question has the first name Art, he is on our
> composition faculty and I will ask him about the EBow.  For now, I'm 
going
> to venture a guess that he wanted actual bows as I described in a 
previous
> post, but I will find out for sure from the proverbial horses...well, 
you
> get the idea.
>
>  Just out of curiosity, are you doing all of this footwork as a favor 
to the
> performer(s)?  As piano conservator?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Alan Eder
>



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