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From: alves@aludra.usc.edu (William Alves)
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Subject: Re: piano vibrato
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Date: 7 Dec 89 19:01:41 GMT
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[sorry, I meant to cross-post this earlier:]

In article <1432@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson) writes:
>
>Best Ways to get a Vibrato Effect on a Piano
>
>1. Get a friend to open and shut the lid.
>2. Stand audience outside house. Open annd shut doors and windows.
>3. Mount piano on giant vibrator.
>
I'm afraid these methods will result only in TREMOLO, not vibrato. That is,
you are modulating the loudness, not the pitch. My suggestion is to vibrate
the piano alternating toward and away from the audience. If done fast enough
over enough of a distance, the doppler effect will give you vibrato. 8-)

Bill Alves
USC School of Music / Center for Scholarly Technology