Oscar Peterson

[David Ilvedson]

You mention the Koln concerts...not the recorded ones, right?   I thought it was a Hamburg Steinway? 



David Ilvedson, RPT

Pacifica, CA 94044









Original message

From: "Gregor _" 

To: "Pianotech List" 

Received: 12/29/2007 1:21:16 AM

Subject: RE: Oscar Peterson





RicB wrote:



> 

> I think any of us who've had this kind of pleasure to work for these 

> folks has enormous amounts to be greatful for.

> 



 

Not all of us! About 20 years ago there was a jazz festival with Keith Jarrett in my hometown (Münster, Germany). Unfortunately, I missed that concert, but my friends told me this story: after a while Keith Jarrett interrupted the concert and claimed that the piano was not perfectly in tune. The tuner was still there. Because it would had taken too much time for some thousand people to leave the hall, they made an anouncement: special request, please keep absoluteley quiet for the tuner to touch up the tuning. And that worked. This collegue had to tune in front of the audience. Horror! And embarrasing too. The piano should not have been in a condition that a player has a reason to complain. No idea if the tuning was actually so bad. However: poor collegue!

 

This year Keith Jarret played in Frankfurt, Germany and one guy in the audience had to cough. Jarrett interrupted his playing very angry, slammed the piano lid and said: I can wait outside if you want to cough. In Madrid he affronted the audience because someone took photos.

 

On the other hand: at the legendary Köln Concerts (1974) he played on a worn out piano with a poor tuning. The moving company had the job to carry the Bösendorfer Imperial from basement to stage. But they mixed up the piano and brought and old and short Bösendorfer to stage, which usually was used for choir practicing only. The organizer convinced him to play on that piano and he really did. And said: I do that only for you (the organizer was a 18 years old girl). After half an our the tuner had to touch up the tuning live on stage.

 

Gregor









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