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From: pmy@jeeves.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: piano vibrato
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Date: 13 Dec 89 16:15:44 GMT
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In article <1676@esquire.UUCP> rreid@esquire.UUCP ( r l reid ) writes:
>In article <49451@bbn.COM> harlan@labs-n.bbn.com (Harlan Feinstein) writes:

>>What I'm seeking is not an answer to how to get a piano vibrato _sound_,
>>but rather a sincere answer to how to do this without electronics.  Someone
>>told me that it was possible.  Some of the replies were amusing,
>>but unfortunately I got no serious answer.

>You get no serious answers because there is no serious answer.
>I assume you mean "an unmodified, unprocessed piano". The strings are fixed.
>You can damp them, you can change your touch, you can prevent them
>being damped after being played.  There's no way to either
>stretch the string or move the end points of the vibrating part.

How about some sort of a whammy bar? A power-assisted fourth pedal, and
safety equipment for the performer.

OK, OK...wasting bandwidth...

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