pianists at utube

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Cy, Dean et al.

I've always wondered whether terribly meaningful judgements can be  
made about the tone of pianos coming out of speakers, no matter how  
good the speakers (or the pianos!) are. Some years ago I attended a  
PTG seminar class that featured listening to the tone of pianos in  
old recordings from decades ago. I couldn't help but be puzzled by  
the fact that we were trying to make tonal discriminations based on  
what we were hearing coming out of two small PA-type speakers,  
playing CD's produced from old analog recordings. It's hard to know  
how drastically, and in what directions, the waveform is altered in  
such a  translation. Every microphone, speaker or headphone has it's  
own frequency response. How close to "reality" is it? Certainly  
tuning problems can be heard, but voicing judgements? I don't  
know...I suppose in a relative sense (as in "this piano sounds better  
to me than that piano")?

I'm very curious to hear what you and others think about this.

Allen Wright, RPT
London, UK

On 5 Feb 2007, at 05:48, Cy Shuster wrote:

> The Pogorelich piano should have the hammers put back on.  It  
> sounds like the shanks hitting the strings -- positively  
> harspichordean.
>
> --Cy--
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean May"  
> <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com>
> To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:42 PM
> Subject: RE: pianists at utube
>
>> Dean wants to know: Okay, all you voicers out there, I would love  
>> to know
>> your evaluation of the voicing of these two intruments. The piano  
>> Pogorelich
>> plays seems really harsh to me, and the one Horowitz plays has  
>> nice color,
>> but seems a little on the bright side.
>>
>> So tell me (and the rest of us voicing novices on the list) how  
>> you would
>> voice them differently. Maybe even what hammer you think would  
>> work best on
>> these two instruments.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dean
>






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