Charlie brown Christmas

J Patrick Draine jpdraine at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 14:58:34 MST 2007


Well, getting a new Mac would always be a good option ...  :>)In the
meantime ... You might try checking whether you need to update the version
of Quicktime that is running on your system.
Oh, and COPY the address that Kent sent, don't just click on it.
Patrick Draine

On Dec 8, 2007 3:34 PM, Mike Spalding <mike.spalding1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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