One of the things I love about this work: after thirty years, there's always something new. Next week I will tune a couple of pianos to imitate the Crazy Otto sound from his Decca recordings from the 1940's and 1950's. I just listened to a tape of a few pieces for the first time, pretty wild ragtimey jazz! I have heard of the honky tonk tunings some Nashville studios use. I guess it's pretty much the same: tuning the three string "unisons" with the center string tuned normally, the left string one cent flat and the right string, one cent sharp. Listening to Crazy Otto, I wonder if I should go even farther. Even the bichords in the upper bass are tuned a bit out. How far do you go for a big fat honky tonk sound? Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090910/980e9ec8/attachment.htm>
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