<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Click here to hear Glenn Gould complain about the piano tuning during his 1955 Goldberg Variations recording sessions:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.kentswafford.com/mp3/">www.kentswafford.com/mp3/</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">who_the_heck.mp3</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">The thing is, now that you know what to listen for, you can hear that they did not fix the tuning; you can hear OOT notes on the released recording.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Kent</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:42 AM, David Nereson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial Narrow">    It's not just jazz, but all fields of music except maybe "classical," and even in that field, if one searched widely enough, a recording could probably be found where there's at least one unison that's a little "out."  But yes, especially in jazz and blues, out-of-tune pianos show up all over the place.  Even for top-notch artists like Art Tatum.  I have one recording of his where the piano sounds horrendous because they were too cheap to tune it.  I've also heard out-ot-tune pianos on recordings by Thelonious Monk, Earl Hines, Otis Spann, Count Basie, et al.  I mentioned in a previous post a couple years ago that I went to see Keith Jarrett at the Village Vanguard in New York in the 70's or 80's.  I showed up way ahead of time to be certain of getting a seat, and Keith himself came in early to tune the piano.  The club owner was too cheap, even though Keith was already a big name.</font></div><div><font face="Arial Narrow">    --David Nereson</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>