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Prepared Piano
I found an interesting article that mentions Christine in the context of a musical technique the article calls "prepared piano." Although the article is about a German avant garde musician known as Hauschka, it mentions Christine on a list of musicians who have used "prepared piano," and the article defines this technique as "altering the original use of a piano—preparing it—to make new sounds by shoving tacks and wooden blocks in between strings or plucking them like a guitar."
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http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...x_v2&id=11&c=2 The console, a Yamaha, is used during two songs in the concert set, "Sara" and "Not That Funny" (both from Tusk). During the former tune, a metal bar on a rail is moved against the strings to produce a honky-tonk effect. The console is set on a stand that raises it a foot and half above the platform so Christine can stand while playing. A microphone has also been mounted on it to allow Lindsey Buckingham to sing harmony by her side on "Sara."
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In't that cute? But I heard he yanked it off and threw it at Nicks in New Zealand.
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Before or after he kicked her...
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That rehearsal where Stevie is saying she doesn't hear any harmony on Sara and then concludes, "because you aren't singing any" is just hilarious.
Christine is also apologizing to her for messing up the keyboard intro to Sara. Michele |
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So ... Christine only used this in concert, not on any recordings?
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Who knows -- for "Sara," they might have actually tampered with one of the acoustic grands in the studio. At piano camp, we used to throw pieces of paper, pencils, and hairbrushes into a grand piano in between the strings & the sounding board, & then play Beethoven & Debussy on it. It twanged & buzzed & clopped & thunked. It was cool! From YouTube, John Cage piano sonata: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4TCth0gGM P.S. Why isn't embedding working any more on The Ledge?
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It seems like the prepared piano thing comes up often. I read that she did use it on the Sara recording. Well, the rumor was, it was quite literally, a tack piano. Where she put thumbtacks in the felt hammers. Anyway, whenever you see prepared piano, they always seem to throw her in. It was in a blurb I posted about a German musician last year: http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpo...0&postcount=33 Quote:
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From the Just Anime blog
http://www.just-anime.co.cc/mokenstef-hes-mine/ Christine McVie, former pianist of Fleetwood Mac, used a prepared upright piano (metal bar attachment) on “Sara” from the album Tusk.[citation needed] A piano like this was also used on the Tusk Tour. |
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They might also have tampered with the strings on one of the grands Chris used on "Don't Stop" in the studio.
These days, there's not much point in actually tampering with the sound board or the string block because the digital age has brought us no end of such simulations with every electronic piano sold. When Christine started playing her modules onstage (1987), she went for a much brighter, honkytonk piano patch on those songs that used acoustic piano patches: "Say You Love Me," "Don't Stop," "Sara," "Has Anyone Ever Written," & "Songbird." On earlier tours, her acoustic piano EQ was always much more compressed & had a drier signal. I loved it. Starting in 1987, it just got too bright & wet.
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On another note, her application of "prepared piano" on Sara is pretty modest, very simple, and yet, as is often the case with hers and Mick's playing, extremely effective in that simplicity. |
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Which pretty much was the standard late 80's keyboard sound. Kind of like the obnoxious gated drums that Phil Collins unfortunately started.
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I'm not surprised that Christine used prepared piano on Sara, especially since the Tusk album was after all very experimental |
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