Hi HT lovers I was just about ready to write a post on this a couple days back relating the rather negative results I've had so far. It had become rather apparent that unless I am in there prodding and pushing all the time, interest simply disappears. Nobody seems to care at all about whether a piano is tuned this way or the other way, as long as its tuned as it were. As this then reflects that HT interest is dependant on my influence and not some naturally occuring self truth, I had decided to drop the whole thing...... Then.. yesterday on the way out of the conservatory I am stopped by the professor whoms two pianos are used in the comparison example. A Young Chang and a Yamaha C6, very comparable sizes. He wanted to tell me how extatic he was over what I had done to his Young Chang. Whether it was the voicing, or action work or the tuning he couldnt say, but that the piano had gained a melodic and musical character that it had never come close to having before. He was in a hurry so we didnt get a chance to really talk much about it. Now the thing is.... I havent done any significant voicing or regulation work on this piano for about 6 months now. Course he likes the Yamaha very much and doesnt use the Young Chang much, so maybe he was just getting around to seriously checking it out again and noticed that work as well for the first time. Or maybe its the temperament. In anycase... I have his attention now, and I think I can talk him into a small project with our two Steinways next fall. Each week one of the professors is supposed to arrange a 2 hour class for all the pianostudents, where they discuss this and that, play a bit here... perhaps one of the students has something special prepared..or pehaps some lecture is given... sort of open to whatever the professor that week wants to do. We could use one of these sessions to check out students preferences on several levels. I'll keep you posted as things develope. RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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