Charlie brown Christmas

[Kent Swafford]

Click here to hear Glenn Gould complain about the piano tuning during  
his 1955 Goldberg Variations recording sessions:

www.kentswafford.com/mp3/who_the_heck.mp3

The thing is, now that you know what to listen for, you can hear that  
they did not fix the tuning; you can hear OOT notes on the released  
recording.

Kent



On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:42 AM, David Nereson wrote:

>     It's not just jazz, but all fields of music except maybe  
> "classical," and even in that field, if one searched widely enough,  
> a recording could probably be found where there's at least one  
> unison that's a little "out."  But yes, especially in jazz and  
> blues, out-of-tune pianos show up all over the place.  Even for top- 
> notch artists like Art Tatum.  I have one recording of his where the  
> piano sounds horrendous because they were too cheap to tune it.   
> I've also heard out-ot-tune pianos on recordings by Thelonious Monk,  
> Earl Hines, Otis Spann, Count Basie, et al.  I mentioned in a  
> previous post a couple years ago that I went to see Keith Jarrett at  
> the Village Vanguard in New York in the 70's or 80's.  I showed up  
> way ahead of time to be certain of getting a seat, and Keith himself  
> came in early to tune the piano.  The club owner was too cheap, even  
> though Keith was already a big name.
>     --David Nereson

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