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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Still, Fred, I don't think Chris =
should've been so
rough on you....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>:-) Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fssturm@unm.edu href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">Fred =
Sturm</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 23, 2005 =
7:00
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] excessive
pedaling?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=Verdana>On 3/21/05 2:30 PM, "Chris =
Solliday" <<A
href="mailto:solliday@ptd.net">solliday@ptd.net</A>> =
wrote:<BR><BR></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>The trouble with being =
unaware is
that one is unaware of being unaware. Chris
Solliday<BR></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT
face=Verdana><BR> Actually, other than making =
a triple
negative and offering opportunities for a few wisecracks, I think that =
Chris,
in his typical cryptic way, was making a good point. He was commenting =
on my
post, where I said that as a young pianist I didn’t think much of =
the una
corda pedal because I had never played a piano that had been =
well-regulated
and voiced (specifically with respect to una corda). So I was unaware =
of the
possibilities, and “unaware that I was unaware.” Hence I had a =
prejudice that
was unwarranted, and was missing a very important
skill.<BR> Which brings me to the reason I am =
bothering
to parse Chris’ prose: As caut’s we have a very special =
responsibility. We are
the ones who give the ever new generation of pianists their experience =
of what
a piano can be. To the extent we succeed in giving them instruments to =
practice and perform on that are responsive, that have all kinds of =
subtlety
possible by virtue of regulation and voicing, we will have helped =
educate not
only them but their students. We will raise their expectations, so =
when they
go somewhere else they will know what is possible and will demand it. =
Which is
why I give a great deal of emphasis (as much as my limited time =
allows) to
keeping the piano major practice grands in as close to performance =
shape as I
can, along with piano faculty and the concert instruments. The rest of =
the
inventory can be average. <BR> If I don’t =
provide
pianos that have had a good una corda voicing, as one example, the =
piano
students who play them won’t learn what the possibilities are, and =
they will
be unaware of being unaware.<BR> Nuff of that
<g><BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Fred Sturm<BR>University of New Mexico
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