"Kate Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Joni talking about recording STAS with Crosby: > > One of the things that we did that was kind of fun because of what had >to be done to clean up the tape, a lot of it was lost, he had me sing a lot >of it into a grand piano with the ringing pedal down. So every note I sang >repeated itself in the strings. If you sing into a grand piano, the notes >on the strings reproduce the sound of your voice, that s the amazing thing. >It was so beautiful. He had so many ideas. He was really good. <<
In my college days, way back in the early 30s, I wrote a piece for several horns and rhythm section, and the horn players stood around the piano playing right into it while I held the damper pedal down (which releases the dampers allowing the strings to vibrate freely in response to the stimulus of the horns). It was called "The Listening Well." It's kind of like the reverb of a huge cathedral or concert hall (or studio reverb) only it has more overtones and harmonics ... I call it "pitched reverb." A good example is Paul Horn's classic album "Inside," flute recorded in the Taj Mahal. In conjunction with the thick clouds of reverb, the usually monophonic flute becomes a chordal instrument. (By the way, Horn later recorded "Blue" and a couple of other Joni songs.) -Fred
