Question for tuner/techs who play.

[David Ilvedson]

I think it means it use to be funny?...;-]

David I.



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From: timothy ehlen <tehlen@uiuc.edu>
To: <tune4u@earthlink.net>, Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:02:36 -0500
Subject: RE: Question for tuner/techs who play.


>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
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