[pianotech] Earl Wild

[Steven Hopp]

I recently regulated and tuned for a concert where the pianist played the Wild arrangement of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.  It was spectacular.  He will be missed...

 

Steven Hopp

Midland, TX


 
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:47:54 +0000
> From: David at piano.plus.com
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] Earl Wild
> 
> I just heard today that Earl Wild died last Saturday. He was 94 and 
> kept working up until a week before his death. Wild was of course one 
> of the great pianists, a Romantic master. After an unfortunate snub by 
> a Steinway representative early in his career, he eschewed Steinway 
> pianos. His recordings on his beautiful plummy Baldwin was a good advert 
> for Baldwin pianos. I see that his last recording session was on a Kawai 
> though.
> 
> I hope list members don't mind me going a bit off-topic with this 
> non-technical post. But its nice to remember the foremost exponents 
> among those who keep us in business, and whose mastery of the instrument 
> that we love (and sometimes loathe!) is complete.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David Boyce
 		 	   		  
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