100 year old piano, or close to it

[David Nereson]

>>> It's not the recording -- the pianos sound out of tune because they 
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>ARE out of tune.  >>
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>      It may be strange to hear a tuner say that there is no such thing as 
>out of tune, just the wrong venue for the sound, but . . . . . 
>      
>Ed Foote RPT 
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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    Yes, I know, and that was a great post, but the isolated instances 
where The Doors, Dr. John, or whoever, wanted a certain type of 
out-of-tuneness for a certain effect was not what I was talking about.  
I was talking about plain-ol' neglect and tightwaddedness on the part of 
studios and bar owners.  The out of tune piano on the one particular Art 
Tatum record I referred to was painfully, not purposely, out of tune.  
It did not help the recording; being in tune would have.  And there are 
many others, but I'd have to pore through my two thousand-odd jazz 
records to find them.   --Dave Nereson, RPT