<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; =
-khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 5, 2005, at =
11:48 AM, Otto Keyes wrote:</DIV><BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P =
style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My vote is to let the earth =
bear it....again.....give the rest of us a break</FONT></P> <P =
style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">outside the =
cage...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: =
12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: =
12.0px Helvetica">Otto</FONT></P> <BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Well, I =
would vote with you, but it is beginning to look like my preferences and =
suggestions that prepared piano accelerates piano wear are being totally =
ignored. </DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"I just want to do =
something different" </DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"but it sounds so =
cool"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yeah, =
some people probably think the sound of an airliner colliding with a =
tall building sounds cool and different too.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyhow, I agreed to help =
her with the preparation. This piece didn't look too involved as long =
as she lets me help. Rather do it that way than find a bunch of =
maimed damper felt and broken strings. The problem is going to =
become that she will want to rehearse it on a prepared practice room =
piano from now till March. </DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Question is this: the =
instructions give exact distance from the damper to place the screws, =
bolts, etc. How much does piano make and model affect what Cage was =
after? (I mean, really, was there really a method to his madness? or =
was this guy just really doing some serious d-basing?) When he says =
"bamboo", is it a "slice" of large bamboo or a "tube" of smaller =
diameter bamboo (like what he was using to snort coke? maybe a doobie =
holder?)? green or dried? and what is usually used for the =
"plastic" weaved around the low A, Bb, and B? Drink straw maybe? (see =
snort)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>No. =
I'm sorry. I just can't take this music form seriously. But some =
people want to give it merit.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV></BODY></HTML>=