Prepared piano

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Rick,

Two years ago, two of the music faculty at Colby were doing a fair bit of
prepared piano works.  The way the pianists identified the strings was by
using very small self adhesive labels stuck on the top of the agraffes.  I
suppose some performers want markings right where they touch the strings, but
this seemed to be a reasonable compromise.  (for a while, they were sticking
these on the damper heads)

Regards,

Gordon Large
Maine

In a message dated 97-04-11 15:58:30 EDT, you write:

<< List,

 I've been meeting with a professor to talk about less damaging ways to deal
 with prepared piano works.  I have been able to solve pretty much all of
 the problems with substitution of tools and methods, however one problem
 still remains.  They have been marking base strings with chaulk (augh!) and
 I need to find a better means of identifying stings without filling the
 windings with such a mess.  Any ideas?

 Thanks

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 Rick Florence, Piano Technician
 Arizona State University, School of Music
 http://www.asu.edu/cfa/music/ >>