[CAUT] Re: Glenn Gould/Bach Stuff

[Michelle Stranges]

So all of what I heard was shallow keydip and not close let off..

Hmmm..

:)

I think it's great all of the responses I got from my initial post   
and thank you all for posting!

What I can't get over though is how something like this was "allowed"  
to be released.
It just sounds so bad to me.

:(

Sorry Glenn.

:)
Stranges
On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Richard Adkins wrote:

> You will hear Vladimir Horowitz' Steinway double strike on his  
> recordings occasionally....another piano
> w/ shallow dip. I don't recall which recordings of his, I heard  
> this on,
> but I do recall hearing on some of them.
>
> With a shallow dip, any variation in hammer tail filing, check  
> alignment might be very critical. Even if the pianist does really  
> bottom the key, there's likely to be all sorts of misses in the  
> tail/check interface that is normally taken care of by the deeper  
> dip. (.400" for S&S now, I believe.)
>
> Richard