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Bastardous Bassist:
You could get a noise suppressor with a slow gate.  Also, that sort of second usage is one of the reasons why it really sucked that we only had an electric piano in the room where I had my modern music theory class.  Really, any extended technique just made us sadder and sadder.

KickThatBathProf:
I guess that means I need to learn what those things are, huh


--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Sep 2009, 08:34 ---Its function is not as you describe;

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Wait what?  I guess I didn't describe it very well because that is exactly what I tried to describe (I have even played that piece using that pedal)

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 29 Sep 2009, 08:39 ---Also, that sort of second usage is one of the reasons why it really sucked that we only had an electric piano in the room where I had my modern music theory class.
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My Kawai stage piano has a sostenuto pedal :-)  but of course it's still limited in not being able to half-pedal, for instance.

Bastardous Bassist:
Yeah, but would it excite vibrations in other strings?  And you definitely can't reach inside and pluck a string.

pwhodges:
Actually, it does model sympathetic vibrations in general - but I'm not sure it goes as far as tuning them to match selective use of the sostenuto pedal.  Hmm - I must try it out!

Agreed though - no plucking, and no "prepared piano" techniques either. 

Nic once played a piece which required a whole lot of ping-pong balls to be scattered on the strings which then bounced around, and in loud bits flew out and bounced around some more on the floor.  It was part of a setting for soprano, two pianos and chamber orchestra of McGonagle's poem about the Tay Bridge disaster - 90 ping-pong balls represented the people who died...  The soprano was wearing a big hat at the start and produced the balls from it at a suitable moment (the crash).

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