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Musicians, like all artists, are people obsessed with the details of their art. And like all artists, they require quality tools to create their best work. Vocalists, of course, carry their instrument with them at all times. Instrumentalists often spend years, even decades, learning the idiosyncrasies of their instrument. Pianists, however, don\u2019t have the luxury of bringing their own piano to a lesson, a practice session or a performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you’re a pianist trying to work on those details, and you have an instrument that cannot respond to the subtleties that pianists work on extensively, then your learning is hampered. Your performance is hampered. Even the audience’s enjoyment of what they’re hearing will be somewhat diminished,\u201d said Andrew Koehler, Kalamazoo College professor of music<\/a>, music department chair and conductor of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the big picture explanation of why, for more than 20 years, the music department at Kalamazoo College has wanted to restore, enhance and update its piano and keyboard collection in support of every student, faculty and community member who makes and enjoys music on campus. Now, thanks to grant support from several local organizations, that work is almost complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The keyboard renewal project funded the restoration of the College’s performance pianos, added new pianos to classroom and studio spaces, and updated the instrument collection in several of the College’s practice rooms. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For more than 20 years, the music department has wanted to restore, enhance and update its piano and keyboard collection in support of every student, faculty and community member who makes and enjoys music on campus. Now, thanks to grant support from several local organizations, that work is almost complete.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Many of the pianos had aged beyond the lack of nuance that would impede a professional pianist, and into a space of no longer being functional instruments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPianos are very complicated technological mechanisms,\u201d Koehler said. \u201cThey break down, and they need to be repaired carefully and expertly to remain in good functioning order. It takes a lot of money, and it’s complicated to do.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College received nearly $150,000 toward the project from the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation<\/a>, Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation<\/a>, H.P. and Genevieve Connable Fund, Thomas A. Todd Foundation and Burdick-Thorne Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the professional rebuilding of two nine-foot Steinway grand pianos in Stetson Chapel and in Dalton Theatre and significant restoration of a Mason and Hamlin piano in the Light Fine Arts Building Recital Hall, the project has provided a variety of electronic keyboards and tiers of pianos for all levels of musician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebuilding and restoring the three performance pianos is key to the continued use of both Stetson and Dalton for College as well as community events and concerts, said Susan Lawrence, Kalamazoo College music event coordinator, piano teacher and accompanist.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do a lot with community here on campus, hosting other music organizations, bringing in community works with some of our ensembles,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cPeople use Stetson for weddings and a lot of different things. In Dalton, people rent that out, and we bring artists in that the community comes to hear. There are community members who play with the symphony or with some of our other ensembles. The community benefits from those pianos.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the music department\u2019s ensembles, the Kalamazoo Philharmonia orchestra, the Academy Street Winds band and the Kalamazoo Choral Arts choir intermix K students with a substantial number of community members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a town-and-gown kind of relationship,\u201d Koehler said. \u201cCommunity members are here, they\u2019re using these facilities, the concerts are also thus populated by their acquaintances, their friends. Beyond students and parents, the music department is a place where people come to campus to hear these performances. Any choir concert will feature the piano; a lot of orchestra concerts do. We have guest recitals. Our final exam in music is an opportunity to perform for others. That is the end goal of almost all our performance-based activity. We want to play for others. We want to share what we’re doing. That is a critical part of the ethos of music making, that’s how we’re sharing with the larger community, and those instruments will make a big difference.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As students develop their musical abilities toward that end goal, offering a range of keyboard and piano options for their use is crucial regardless of their primary instrument or type of musical interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery musician who walks through this department touches a piano in some way, for theory, composition, music production,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cMost of them don’t want to be famous pianists, and they may not sit down to hone a craft, but they need a functioning instrument.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department worked to create tiers of instruments for the range of student needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe piano is a really important part of how all musicians come to understand music, because the keyboard is a visual representation of the spectrum of notes: the lower pitches ascending to the higher ones, arranged from left to right,\u201d Koehler said. \u201cAll musicians are expected to have at least some passing familiarity with how it works. Even if you’re a singer or a violinist who’s trying to make sure you’re in tune and you’re hitting the right pitch, sometimes you have to go to the keyboard, even if it’s one-finger kind of level of piano playing, to say, \u2018OK, I think I’ve got those intervals right. I’m doing it correctly.\u2019 All of that absolutely is necessary.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electronic keyboards in some of the practice rooms in the Light Fine Arts basement serve as basic or entry-level options. They offer full keyboards\u201488 weighted keys that mimic the feel of a piano\u2014as well as the ability to connect to a computer for recording, theory, composition and music-production work. In addition, they will weather basement conditions better than an acoustic piano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-quality used upright pianos in several practice rooms provide a step up from the electronic keyboards for an intermediate or advanced student, while grand pianos in other rooms allow faculty to work with more serious students. Finally, there are the fine performance pianos in Stetson, the Recital Hall, and Dalton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe end result of this project is instruments that support our students\u2019 learning, that allow them to do that kind of nuanced work that I was talking about earlier, and that fundamentally is what we’re here to do: Support the learning of our students and allow them to share it with the community,\u201d Koehler said. \u201cWe want to make sure that we provide the materials that they can do that with.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

College pianos endure heavy use, and so it is important both to start with strong pianos and for students to learn how to care for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudents learn to take care of their own instruments,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cPianos seem more like furniture to some people in some ways, and they may think it’s going to be there forever, and it’s not if you don’t take care of it. We have covers and locks on all the performance pianos. It\u2019s important that we teach anyone who comes in and uses a piano how to take care of it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that careful maintenance, and aided by recent improvements to climate control in Light Fine Arts, the music department expects the keyboard renewal project to make a difference on campus and in the wider community for years to come.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur annual maintenance fund helps us do simple things, like keep the pianos in tune, and maybe some basic action regulation to make sure the hammers are the right shape to hit the string in the right way and create the range of sounds that you want,\u201d Koehler said. \u201cThen sometimes, of course, like we’re seeing here, whole things have to be replaced, or much more significant work has to be done to re-regulate aspects of the complex machine that is the piano. We\u2019re grateful to these organizations for supporting this work, because in the 20 years we\u2019ve been waiting to get this done, these complex machines kept getting worse. It\u2019s just wonderful to turn the corner on this, and we should be in a good place for 10, 20 years or even longer.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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