[CAUT] Ear bender, sad, but true

[Ed Sutton]

Here is Bruno Walter, wonderful conductor, very good pianist, playing his 
home piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5ibpD7Yr4&feature=related

I think of the prize-winning pianist whose piano "stays in tune for two 
years...it's amazing!" (his wife winces when he says it) or the church music 
director, a creative teacher and composer, who doesn't notice when the low 
tenor notes drop 15 cents in December.

And the pianists, some professional musicians, who ask "Did it really need 
tuning?"

What do people hear? Walter seems to be playing happily, and very well, 
but...

Ed Sutton