Tuning for recordings

[Richard Moody]

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas A. Sheehan <tsheehan@nyc.rr.com>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Ahmad Jamal


> As the tuner who tuned and voiced this year's Grammy
award-winning Best
> Contemporary Jazz Album by a Group - Pat Metheny Group's
"Thinking of
> Now," - it makes the work go more efficiently when the pianist,
in this case
> Lyle Mays, is trusting enough to ask me to just get the piano
"right" for
> him. I think that it's a matter of rapport: with and confidence
in the
> technician.

Did you  tune for the recording that won the Grammy?   This is
great.  I always lamented that the tuner was/is not mentioned on
albums.  So when we hear "Thinking of Now" we know who did the
tuning.

When was the out of tune Medowlark recorded?  Hope it wasn't me
----rm




> I am continually appalled by the lack of good,
> solid tuning in jazz piano recordings from the 50s and 60s.
E.g., "Time Out"  by the Dave Brubeck Quartet swings like crazy,
but there's one ballad - "Strange Meadowlark" - that's so clearly
out of tune that it's enough to almost make your toes curl.

> Tom Sheehan, RPT
> NYC Chapter
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