Mowtown

[Alan Barnard]

Yeah, yeah .... Ramsey Lewis!  "Wade In The Water" ... fabulous stuff, 1965, I believe. I can remember sitting with my girlfriend (now married 40 years) at the Dog n' Suds restaurant in Urbana, Illinois (University of) listening to that with root beer and chili dogs. Wow. Thanks for stirring a great memory! And this is one crazy white guy who loved the Motown Sound from Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, all of it.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "Fenton Murray" 
To: annie at allthingspiano.com, "Pianotech List" 
Received: 2/9/2008 12:13:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mowtown 


How about. "The In Crowd" by Ramsey Lewis. Or any of the James Booker stuff. Incredible cuts on night club pianos that you can literally hear falling apart as they are being played. 'The In Crowd' was a best selling instrumental and maybe Ramsey's biggest hit. If you could would you go back and prep those pianos for the recording? Please don't, might ruin everything.
Fenton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Annie Grieshop 
To: Pianotech List 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 5:52 AM
Subject: RE: Mowtown 


Julia,

Assuming you meant "Motown", I'd suggest you watch "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", a documentary about the backup musicians who created that wonderful sound.  From their descriptions of the early days, I wonder whether the pianos were even tuned for sessions....  It might also give you some leads to who might have the answers to your questions.

And if you haven't seen it, check out "Buena Vista Social Club" for more marvelous music on poorly maintained pianos,  particularly the playing of Rubén González.

Annie Grieshop
-----Original Message-----
From: KeyKat88 at aol.com [mailto:KeyKat88 at aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:03 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Mowtown 


Greetrings,

                 Does anyone know of any tuners that tuned for Mowtown? How can I find out what tuners were working on that area in that time? I wanna know if they tuned in ET, because things sound as if its NOT ET on ALOT of the recordings.

Julia Gottshall, 
REading PA







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