Anybody else having trouble listening to this? In either Firefox or Internet Explorer, I get about 2 words then my browser crashes. Short of buying a Mac, what should I do? Mike Kent Swafford wrote: > Click here to hear Glenn Gould complain about the piano tuning during > his 1955 Goldberg Variations recording sessions: > > www.kentswafford.com/mp3/ > <http://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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