On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 05:32 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: > List, > > The SF Ballet is going to do a ballet based on a Scott Joplin piece > and they want a honky tonk sound. Reminds me of a tuning a couple weeks ago. 15 year old Young Chang upright, "last tuned 8 years ago", half tone flat, wildly out of tune with itself. When I got there the young (20ish) man had some Joplin on the music stand. Somewhat sheepishly he volunteered, "Some of his music states 'play on untuned piano'." (I don't doubt that some delightful music publisher might have inserted that piece of wisdom; do others know if Joplin actually made such an instruction?) I intoned "Believe me if Scott Joplin or Eubie Blake could heard this thing they would shout "Tune this thing NOW!" End of today's rant, Patrick D
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