Pianotech

  • 1.  concert this Thursday

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-08-2019 17:57
    Shameless plug: A chamber music concert I tuned for last October 5th is being broadcast on a KWAX FM program called "Played in Oregon". It features the American Chamber Players, Reiko Uchida, pianist, and it was recorded in the First Presbyterian Church in Corvallis, which has a superb almost new Hamburg Steinway B.

    Only one chance: this Thursday at 5 p.m. Pacific time. Here's the website which has a streaming window. Times may or may not be totally exact because (drat) they are moving into their pledge mode, but the whole concert should be there.

    https://kwax.uoregon.edu/listen

    http://www.chambermusiccorvallis.org/american-chamber-players.html

    It's so rare that something I do is available for other technicians to hear -- I wish we could all hear each other's work more often. Words only go so far. Our discussions could mean so much more if we could hear what we are talking about more often.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 2.  RE: concert this Thursday

    Posted 04-08-2019 18:05
    Looking forward to hearing your work!

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    Ted Rohde
    Central Illinois
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  • 3.  RE: concert this Thursday

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-08-2019 22:23
    Thanks, Ted!

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 4.  RE: concert this Thursday

    Posted 04-12-2019 17:56
    I didn't get to listen live. Can I listen to a recording?

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    John Formsma, RPT
    New Albany MS
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  • 5.  RE: concert this Thursday

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-13-2019 01:01
    I tried to take a WAV off the broadcast, but I didn't have the set up right to use a line out from the computer into my new little recording gizmo.
    I turned the volume of my kind of middling speakers pretty high, turned up the internal mikes on the gadget fairly high, and sat very still.
    The fidelity is probably pretty lousy but not totally horrid.

    Next step for me is to install the software CD that came with the gadget (a ZOOM H2n) and use a USB cable to move the file into the computer. If I'm lucky I'll manage to burn a CD from it, but also save it as a WAV file in the computer, which I could download to the list.

    I do think that, since I don't own any rights to this performance, I'd better include only incomplete movements, especially on a public list. But maybe I can offer enough to give you some idea what it sounded like.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 6.  RE: concert this Thursday

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-13-2019 02:22
    Listening to the WAV of the concert, with the volume set up not too loud, just loud enough, and the bass and treble balance carefully set, it sounds pretty decent especially considering how I made it.

    Then there was that moment when my tuning student called my cell phone to say that his attempt to record off the line out of his computer had failed. That is now memorialized in the first part of the Schubert for all time.

    I'll see how transferring the file to the computer and playing it that way works. Then I need to edit which passages to put on the list, and how long they might be, since I don't have the rights. I suppose we can call short excerpts a study instead of a performance, since they couldn't be pirated, being fragmentary. And of course the names will be included.

    What results people might get depends a lot on what they use for computer speakers, of course.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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