On Nov 8, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Shelley wrote: > So begging the question, who is the most powerful player that you’ve > ever voiced/tuned for? Actually, my vote for Cecil Taylor does not apply to "making the piano go out of tune," just to really getting maximum motion out of all the strings in the piano. I didn't find that his playing made the piano go particularly out of tune, while the technique of other pianists is more apt to do so. I think it has to do with a more brittle attack, lack of fluidity in the technique - which is also the kind of technique that will lead to broken strings and piano parts, and to ugly sound as well. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101108/42fc8897/attachment.htm>
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