By "Scott Joplin original recordings" I suppose you
mean his Connorized piano rolls recorded to LP from a
beat-up, lousy sounding playerpiano, as he never made
any phonograph recordings while living that I have
ever heard of!
It is a most unfortunate thing that, prior to
Artis Wodehouse's recording of Gershwin's rolls for
Nonesuch, practically EVERY recording of player pianos
was made on a trashed out piano, as if this were
somehow more "authentic"!!! Poppycock! The finest
pianos ever made, including Masons and Steinways had
player systems fitted to them, and were meant to sound
as rich as their non-player brethren!
But you are right in that musicians will "adapt"
to whatever is before them, if desperate enough to
play it. And make the best of it.
Thump
--- Nathan Bower <nathan@bowern8.plus.com> wrote:
> Sometimes the piano dosent matter as much as the
> music. The best artists
> work with what they have - I remember a story of
> lizt playing the 3
> moonlinght moovements for a group fresh from a
> concert performance. Although
> he only had a small instrument, the lucky audience
> professed their
> preference to be him!
>
> I like those Scott Joplin original recordings, the
> ones which you can hardly
> tell whether he is playing a piano, or a mibrana for
> example.
>
> To sum up, although you may be dismayed that the
> music students could not
> tell if the piano was tuned or not, to them its the
> music that counts! Im
> sure if you asked them to pick the best of 2 pianos,
> they would pick the
> tuned.
>
> Just my opinion,
>
> Nathan
>
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