inner-string voicing

[Richard Adkins]

Just to add to this thread that Mr Kuerti began....it seems that alot
of the concert pianists that come here, especially those from the
NY/Russian/and Liszt  traditions use the una-corda pedal alot and use
various shift positions for tone colors.......while the viennese/german
pianists don't seem to use it as much....it's a good idea to always check
the voicing in the shift position(s) for evenness as well as when the
action is not in shift position....if these are not new hammers and
you are evening them out for concerts, you should voice the uneveness
out of the shift positions first, as it will affect the non-shift voicing....
if you do it the opposite way, by the time you get to even out the shift
position you could really do a number on the non-shift voicing you just
did....


Richard Adkins
Coe College Music Dept.