Well, getting a new Mac would always be a good option ... :>)<div>In the meantime ... You might try checking whether you need to update the version of Quicktime that is running on your system.</div><div>Oh, and COPY the address that Kent sent, don't just click on it.
</div><div>Patrick Draine<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 8, 2007 3:34 PM, Mike Spalding <<a href="mailto:mike.spalding1@verizon.net">mike.spalding1@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Anybody else having trouble listening to this? In either Firefox or<br>Internet Explorer, I get about 2 words then my browser crashes. Short<br>of buying a Mac, what should I do?<br><br>Mike<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>
Kent Swafford wrote:<br>> Click here to hear Glenn Gould complain about the piano tuning during<br>> his 1955 Goldberg Variations recording sessions:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.kentswafford.com/mp3/" target="_blank">
www.kentswafford.com/mp3/</a><br></div>> <<a href="http://www.kentswafford.com/mp3/" target="_blank">http://www.kentswafford.com/mp3/</a>>who_the_heck.mp3<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">><br>> The thing is, now that you know what to listen for, you can hear that
<br>> they did not fix the tuning; you can hear OOT notes on the released<br>> recording.<br>><br>> Kent<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:42 AM, David Nereson wrote:<br>><br>>> It's not just jazz, but all fields of music except maybe
<br>>> "classical," and even in that field, if one searched widely enough, a<br>>> recording could probably be found where there's at least one unison<br>>> that's a little "out." But yes, especially in jazz and blues,
<br>>> out-of-tune pianos show up all over the place. Even for top-notch<br>>> artists like Art Tatum. I have one recording of his where the piano<br>>> sounds horrendous because they were too cheap to tune it. I've also
<br>>> heard out-ot-tune pianos on recordings by Thelonious Monk, Earl<br>>> Hines, Otis Spann, Count Basie, et al. I mentioned in a previous<br>>> post a couple years ago that I went to see Keith Jarrett at the
<br>>> Village Vanguard in New York in the 70's or 80's. I showed up way<br>>> ahead of time to be certain of getting a seat, and Keith himself came<br>>> in early to tune the piano. The club owner was too cheap, even
<br>>> though Keith was already a big name.<br>>> --David Nereson<br>><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>