<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: [CAUT] excessive pedaling?</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>Excellent post... David I. <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;= PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid;= PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message From: Fred Sturm <FSSTURM@UNM.EDU> To:= College and University Technicians <CAUT@PTG.ORG> Received:= Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:00:17 -0700 Subject: Re: [CAUT] excessive= pedaling? On 3/21/05 2:30 PM, "Chris= Solliday" <solliday@ptd.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>The trouble with being= unaware is that one is unaware of being unaware. Chris= Solliday </BLOCKQUOTE><FONT= face=Verdana>     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.     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.=     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.     Nuff of that= <g> Regards, Fred Sturm University of New= Mexico </DIV></BODY></HTML>