Klarinet Archive - Posting 000679.txt from 2002/01

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Acoustic problems in new hall
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:29:10 -0500

About 20 years ago I led a fund raiser to obtain a new Baldwin concert
grand for our school district - so that visiting performers and serious
local students and performers would have a worthwhile instrument. At the
inaugural recital the artist and stage crew could hear a distinct tone
(between Eb' and D') when either of those tones was struck. After the
concert we checked the piano and the hall and found nothing. I called
Baldwin's chief trouble-shooter. He was mystified; but said he'[d once had
the same problem with a Steinway at Carnegie Hall. At the next performance
I was back stage. After about half an hour we found a segment of the
lighting resistor grid that was resonating with the piano!

At Dickinson College, The auditorium was designed by The
Architects Collaborative, of Boston (who had so much trouble with the
Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center). It is circular, with three segments and a
truncated, triangular center stage that can be raised or lowered. With the
stage raised for chamber ensembles, and two of the sliding walls in place a
bell-shaped backdrop is formed. Performers on the stage cannot hear each
other but the sound is great for the audience.l

Allen
09:01 AM 1/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>The Kimmel Center is having some acoustic challenges for players there. I
>was reading in the paper where a wind player was commenting that he was
>hearing the left and right hands of the Piano Soloists at slightly different
>times in the hall!!
>
>I can't imagine that one. Jeez..........
>
>Anyone else ever have something like that??
>
>David Blumberg
>http://artists.toptempo.com
>
>
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