[78-L] Definistration demonstration (was: Introduction (a bit long))

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Oh, bosh.
Ever watch a piano tuner work? He stops the notes he doesn't need to 
hear when tuning with little rubber gizmos.
The only way a C major chord would have resulted is if all the felt 
dampers (operated by the sustain pedal) for the triad (C-E-G) were 
removed along the entire length of the keyboard or if all the other 
notes were stopped.
THEN you'd get a C major chord when it hit the ground.
But only for a very short period of time.
I'd be curious to hear the difference between the piano hitting concrete 
or, say, grass, though. And is the sound at impact any difference if the 
instrument is tossed off a 10 story building, or pitched from a 3 story 
building.
I think it'd be more fun recording a prepared piano bouncing down a long 
flight of steps, ala Laurel & Hardy though
The mind boggles.
Mal

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Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> Regarding the piano being shoved out the window,it was said that Red Nichols and BIx Be-
> iderbecke were in the room and Bix said that the chord heard,when the piano hit the ground
> the chord heard was "C".Apparently,Red Nichols made a five dollar bet because Venuti was
> purported to have said something to the tune that he didn't know why Red Nichols would
> opject because he got his five dollars back.Anecdote courtesy of Richard M. Sudhalter from
> his 1973 book "Bix Man and Legend".
>
> --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Introduction (a bit long)
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:34 PM
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>> From what I havew read on Joe Venuti,I wouldn't put it past him to 
>> do something like that.
>> I don't think it tops Venuti hiring 37 bass players who met at a 
>> street intersection or him
>> sawing away at Wingy Manonne's wooden prosthesis.
>>     
>
> Or dumping a sack of flour in someone's tuba, or he and some drunken 
> friends pushing a piano out a window on a bet about what chord it 
> would make when it hit the ground.
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> Jeff Lichtman
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