[pianotech] An alternate but not quite parallel universe

[William Truitt]

The Well-Tuned Piano isn't even about piano sound for me, although I can
choose to re-approach it from that perspective if I want to be once removed
from the experience itself.  It is not an experience filtered through my
intellect.  It is the pure, undefined experience itself in its immediacy and
its power. As Ron would have it, we are not intellectualizing the sound of
the surf, we are simply enjoying it speaking to the core of our being.
Having done some chanting over the years, the well tuned piano has a similar
effect of relaxation and bringing a sense of harmony in my being.  

Sometimes it takes an artist to bring us back to an organic relationship
with the natural world we live in.  They let us crawl inside their ears for
a little while.  

Will

  


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:14 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] An alternate but not quite parallel universe

David Ilvedson wrote:
> Alright...let's go a little farther with this...
> 
> Jim writes:  "For example, I find that with most pianos,
> sound as a sensation is pushed so far to the back that its
> hard to see that the sound we think we are experiencing is
> actually a memory"
> 
> Noah concurs...
> 
> I'm wondering, seriously...what are you guys smoking?


I think it's right on. Aren't there sounds in your world that 
speak to your very center? Be it surf, thunder, the screech 
owl in the distance or the loon on the lake? I'm looking for a 
piano sound too. It's not defined as loud, or powerful, or any 
of the standard sales descriptions that prospective customers 
can hear driving by, and feel somewhat beyond the pain 
threshold in the piano's presence. It's more like cellos or 
bassoons, something warmer and richer than strident 
percussive. Something that speaks to me like surf and thunder, 
and geese passing overhead in the night, and makes some of the 
more strident aspects of life recede for a moment.

So I concur too.
Ron N