"Piano Drop" genre: Sound Effects
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	Recorded sound of a 1901 upright piano hitting the pavement of Main Street, Atwood, Ill. We lifted the piano with a crane and dropped it from about 10-15 ft.
	CD: Stone Soup   Label: Rural Route Records Credits: Nathan Denton (engineer)
	Story Behind the Song One pancake and two dynamic microphones were strapped to the sound board of the piano, and two SM 81s were used to capture a stereo ambience, from about six feet back. Each mic was fed through a 100 ft. snake onto separate analog tracks in my studio. The ambient sounds were mostly impact and splintering wood noises, but the mics strapped to the soundboard picked up a chaotic sustain that worked out beautifully. The impact also shattered the piano quite nicely, so that I was able to strip the piano down to its soundboard with my bare hands. The soundboard was undamaged. With the help of some sturdy friends, I hauled this stringed carcass into my studio and set to work on it with an assortment of metal and wooden lengths of pipe. I struck the strings in a three-band division, recording each onto separate tracks. A sledge hammer slammed into the wooden ends added nice low end thud. All tracks, mixed together, comprise audio from the World's First Annual Piano Drop

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