<div> 10-4 on the ffff octaves<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,</font> good buddy<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.</font>  (<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A</font>nd for forty-five minutes <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">straight</font> in this iteration, no less<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">!</font>)<br> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Alan Eder</font><br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu><br> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 8:14 am<br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] String breakage "In C"<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_2e7562dd-cb02-4546-9ba3-97cfde12ea3a"> Hi Alan, <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lucky you, that this piece is so popular with your students. Thanks for the heads up. I'm curious, what does the "pulse" consist of? From the string breakage, it sounds like Fortissimo octaves rather than tremolo. (The piece isn't in our library, or I'd go check).<br> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style=""> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Fred Sturm</div> <div>University of New Mexico</div> <div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> <div> <div>On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:55 PM, <a href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</a> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">We just lost two strings on a Steinway B, one of our primary performance pianos during a rehearsal of Terry Riley's "In C".  The piece has a pulse played for the duration on the two highest C's.  (Too bad the player didn't get what the piano was trying to tell him when the first string broke!)  I was not informed that a piano was going to be used for this piece (now they are replacing it with a mallet instrument), or I would have at least backed the let-off, normally a breath away on C7 & C8 on our performance pianos, WAYYY off. <div><br> </div> <div>Oh, well.<br> <div><br> </div> <div>FWIW,</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Alan Eder</div> <div><br> </div> <div>P. S On one other occasion in which this piece was played here, they used our Bosie 275 (with individually tied treble strings).  After eventually breaking all three strings on C7, the player, obviously unable to hear the sound that was NOT coming out of the piano from that note, continued to hammer away, repeatedly driving the hammer directly into the capo bar.  By the end of the performance the hammer felt was sliced open clear down to the molding!</div> <div><br> </div> <div>ae</div> </div> <div id="u8CABB25FCE56E27-1120-441E" class="aol_ad_footer"><font style="color: black; font-family: ARIAL,SAN-SERIF; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><hr style="margin-top: 10px;">The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. <a title="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014" target="_blank" href="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014">Get the TMZ Toolbar Now</a>!</font> </div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div> = </div>  <div id='u8CABBC29B1E3EE7-1A38-1D66' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. <A title="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014" href="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014" target="_blank">Get the TMZ Toolbar Now</A>!</FONT> </div>