Question for tuner/techs who play.

[timothy ehlen]

Alan,

Posthumous=published after death of author 
(composer)!  I know that's what you meant...or, maybe 
you were joking...

Tim




---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:15:53 -0500
>From: "Alan Barnard" <tune4u@earthlink.net>  
>Subject: RE: Question for tuner/techs who play.  
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>
>   I usually play parts of some of these pieces because
>   they have big chords, octaves, or arpeggios in a
>   variety of keys:
>    
>   Clair de Lune, Debussy, D flat
>   Waltz in A Flat, Brahms
>   C major Prelude, Bach (Well-Tempered Clavier)
>   Träumerei, Schumann, F (So beautiful, such a
>   masterpiece of harmonic and melodic construction.
>   Was one of Horowitz's favorite encore pieces, I
>   believe)
>   Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement, Beethoven, C# 
minor
>   Waltz in A Flat Major, Chopin, Op.69, No.1,
>   Posthumous (which, I think, means he wrote it after
>   he was dead)
>   Prelude in C Minor, Chopin (Shows off a nice bass.
>   If the piano doesn't have a nice bass, I do not play
>   it.)
>   Send In The Clowns, Sonderman, E Flat
>   Für Elise, Beethoven (At least the A and A' and C
>   sections—and, I confess to ending with a big
>   improvised arpeggios of the A minor chord to the top
>   of the piano, pedal down, then play the lowest A
>   octave and let it ring. Lotsa fun.)
>    
>   If a new customer (regulars know better) ask me to
>   "play something" for them, they usually get
>   something like "Chopsticks" .... which slowly morphs
>   into something more serious.
>    
>   Alan Barnard
>   Salem, Missouri
>    
>    
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: John Delmore
>     To: pianotech@ptg.org
>     Sent: 08/29/2005 2:48:53 PM
>     Subject: Question for tuner/techs who play.
>
>     Hi all:
>
>     I was wondering if some of the techs who play have
>     any favorite pieces they play when finished a
>     tuning, to see how things sound musically ?  I
>     would think something that ranges over the
>     keyboard fairly well, maybe plenty of octaves, but
>     not something so showy as to intimidate the client
>     (still want their opinion, right?).  What do you
>     think?
>
>     John Delmore