[CAUT] Ear bender, sad, but true

[johnparham at piano88.com]

If Bruno Walter's content with his piano is indicative of how my
customers hear their pianos, I am out of work.

-John Parham


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [CAUT] Ear bender, sad, but true
> From: "Ed  Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>
> Date: Tue, December 21, 2010 9:15 pm
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> 
> 
> 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