[CAUT] Grieg Experiment

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Fred and all interested.

Glad you liked it.  I thought it was really cool myself and am very much 
looking forward to the CD.  I should mention the sound of Griegs piano 
as played by Mr. Slåttebrekk is raw mic sound.  This was just a tidbit 
the producer sent me to let me get an idea of how we all did getting 
this old lady to sound, and how well the project as a whole is going.  I 
thought the piano sounded very well indeed... bringing it down to 436 
helped enormously. I wish you all could have heard up close and personal 
the difference this pitch change made.

I also want to echo your sentiments about Sigurds ability to match 
Edvards style.  Again.. sitting and watching them at work... they picked 
the old digitized wax roles apart phrase by phase.  The piece you heard 
was about 3 days work.  The final CD will be about 30 minutes of music I 
believe.  We were all out there for 4 weeks in the late fall and another 
2 weeks in Jan / Feb.  They also have done some work in Oslo on a D, but 
I am unsure as to whether they will use the material from there.  They 
fell in love with Edvards instrument. 

I dont know exactly what kind of processes were used to digitize the wax 
rolls.  I just know there is another method being used then what was 
used on the files we had available and that this other method is 
supposed to be quite superior.  I can get Tony to write a bit about that 
and forward it along I think... if you all are interested.

Anyways... cool you all found it enjoyable.  It was/is probably the most 
enjoyable project I've ever had the privilege  to be a part of.

Cheers
RicB


    Hi Ric,

    Fascinating! Amazing job of matching both style of playing and
    timber of the instrument. It certainly sounds convincingly like a
    re-creation from the past. Do you know to what extent the digitized
    version of the wax cylinder recording was manipulated
    electronically, if at all? (I guess there is bound to be some
    manipulation, even if not intentional, in the mechanical process of
    cylinder to needle to "trumpet" and then placement of mikes and
    setting gain and whatnot).

    Regards,
    Fred Sturm
    University of New Mexico
    fssturm at unm.edu

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