Temperaments

[robert sadowski]

Les,
     Just a thought - I've always felt that Debussy was the first "jazz
cat".  I guess I'll have to listen to more Chopin.

Bob Sadowski
Erie, PA.

-----Original Message-----
From: Les Smith <lessmith@buffnet.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Temperaments


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>On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
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>> Les,
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>> Both Chopin and a really good modern jazz pianist would have understood.
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>Absolutely! As I wrote that post, I was thinking of modern jazz and won-
>dering how many performers realize that many of the harmonic devices
>they use today go back to a dude named Fred who died a century and a
>half ago! Kinda makes one wonder if Chopin were alive today, whether he
>might not be in a smoke-filled club somewhere, playing a computer-inter-
>faced, high-end, state-of-the-art, digital piano, with its sound-sampling
>taken from a Steinway D, and which would give him the ability to alter
>pitch, key AND temperament, with merely the flip if a switch, huh? It
>could even do his orchestration for him when he wrote his next piano
>concerto and then play back the whole thing from memory as he sat on
>the sidelines, listening himself playing, while drinking an Old Mil-
>waukee beer and contemplating its slogan: It doesn't get any better
>than this! :)
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>Les Smith
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